- Metal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punk Quotes
On rebellion, identity, and growing up inside a subculture.
Several lines describe punk as something absorbed early, whether through a brief run playing in a DIY band or time spent around older musicians in the scene. Read more in our Music quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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