- Little
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
- Chopin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be a punk all your life.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the first CD I actually went into a store to pick out myself was a Good Charlotte album... I went through a tomboy punk phase in the fourth grade.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
- Nov 07, 2020
When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020