Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

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

I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

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

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

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

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

My whole life is punk.