Tre Cool Quotes

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

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

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

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

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.

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

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

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.

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

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

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.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

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

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

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.

What irritates me are bands that pretend they've never heard of the Misfits or Danzig, but they've got the skeleton shirt.

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