Glenn Danzig Quotes

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.'

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

I think punk rock needs an 'Amadeus.'

The Knack were a very, very powerful band, and you got to understand, when they came in, all the punk stuff was still going on. There was an amazing conflict within the scenes.

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

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.

By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work and I plummeted.

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.

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.

I was a huge punker growing up.

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.

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.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

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

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

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.

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

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.