Punk Rock Quotes

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Freedom, Pain, Rock

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.
Billy Corgan

God, Rock, Spiritual

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
Travis Barker

Rock, Musicians, Punk

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
Travis Barker

Love, Music, Rock

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Rock, Start, Once

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Rock, Football, Punk

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
Vivienne Westwood

Rock, Person, Punk

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
Patti Smith

Freedom, Rock, Successful

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Music, Experience, Rock

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Beauty, Rock, Punk

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
James Marsters

Time, Rock, Passion

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.
Mark Hoppus

Great, Rock, Yourself

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
John Cusack

Age, Time, Rock

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.
Trey Parker

Rock, Problem, Republican

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.
Trey Parker

Rock, Republican, Punk

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
Dee Dee Ramone

Time, Cool, Rock

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
Dave Grohl

Smart, School, Rock

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
Rob Sheffield

Music, Best, Rock

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
Stanley Crouch

Music, Rock, Black

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
Mark Hoppus

Life, Rock, Greatest

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.
Craig Ferguson

Age, Rock, Difficult

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
Jack White

Rock, Play, Tell

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Jello Biafra

Rock, Down, Punk

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.
Penelope Spheeris

Love, Rock, Punk

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
Tre Cool

Art, Rock, Become

Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.
Mayer Hawthorne

Rock, Big, Influence

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.
Reggie Watts

Love, Music, Rock

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
Garrett Hedlund

School, Rock, Country

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.
Justin Sane

Great, History, Rock

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
Mike Watt

Rock, Big, Whole

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