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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life is punk.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm partial to slouchier, more free clothing. My icon is Patti Smith, so the more rips, the more punk, the more comfortable I feel.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a heroic attitude to artistic freedom, and we thought normal contracts were a bit vulgar - somehow not punk. But that was the whole point - we weren't a regular record label.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite punk rock song is 'Linoleum' by NOFX. That's pure harmony, the coolest chord changes.
- Happening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to prom because I was too punk.
- Big Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
CM Punk is a very talented man, and I'm a big fan of his.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, CM Punk is a really big draw for the UFC. He's going to bring a lot of eyes to the UFC, and the better he does, the better it'll be for all MMA fighters as far as sponsorships and stuff.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
All punk rockers hate Christmas.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play really bad punk rock guitar.
- Daft
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that my biggest influences are electronic acts. Daft Punk is probably my number 1, then Kanye West would be number 2 after that.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was such a punk.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
- Heavy Metal
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with heavy metal, Van Halen, Motley Crue. The older I got, my tastes widened. I always felt an attraction to the attitudes of punk; also punk filmmakers, like Richard Kern.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid I was super into all kinds of pop. It wasn't until I became a teenager that I moved more into alternative music and punk rock.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
- Metal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had influences musically with punk, and then growing up, I dyed my hair every color. I did the dip-dye blue, before anybody was dip-dyeing their hair. And streaks of pinks and purples and whatnot.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially older people, 'It took me ages to get into jazz.'
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!
- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more than Lynyrd Skynyrd or Yes or Van Halen.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.
- Francis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.
- Great Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!
- Knows
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone knows queers and women invented punk.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've known a lot of people who were punkers who went on to get academic degrees. Very few of them, however, continued their active role in the punk community. Most of them hung up their leather jacket when they did so.
- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.
- Dedication
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the Ramones knew they were inventing punk. They were trying to be rockabilly.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disco told audiences to dance, while punk told them to be anything but passive. The artists didn't mind; in fact, they encouraged it.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a tomboy, and my style is punk.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did make a lot of my own clothes. I used to love to sew, so I made my own shirts and bell bottoms and modified my own clothes, which is what we did during the punk period.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't any different from my singing.
- Drummer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020