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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.
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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.
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Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
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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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I'm a tomboy, and my style is punk.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
- Money
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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.'
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