Ezra Furman Quotes

When we play live, we go back to our punk roots.

I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again.

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

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

I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.

When I was in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, Green Day was my formative entry to punk. I wish I could say I was listening to Minor Threat and Black Flag, but I wasn't. Bay Area punk bands were doing it right.

The Sex Pistols came through Atlanta, and I got to go see them. That was historic. It blew me away; it was so much fun. I bought 45s of bands you don't hear about anymore.

The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, and every one a potential hit single.

The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.

Hardcore bands were coming out with names like Urban Waste and The Mob, you know, a lot of kind of tough names. So Beastie Boys was the stupidest name we could come up with. And unfortunately, it stuck.

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

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

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

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

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.