Punk Quotes

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

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.

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

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

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

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.

C.M. Punk...I think you're a nerd

A real punk is punk on the inside.

I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

I want to have tampons as merch that say ‘Periods are punk.'

Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s actually much more interesting and exciting than someone who is paying homage.

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

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.

What the Sex Pistols made sounded like quality, because they had a big label and top engineers and producers. But punk rock shouldn't be quality; it should be f**king mania. It should be gnarled, a glorious lo-fi live sound.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

Do ya' feel lucky, punk?

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy, just to be punk rock.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

My haters are laughable punks, my supporters the greatest people that ever lived.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.