Glenn Danzig Quotes

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

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

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on.

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

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s.

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.

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

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

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

That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things.

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small group of artists, misfits and weirdos, where everyone was welcomed and encouraged to express themselves.

To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.

Rock music had its own constituency, its own steering wheel. It was beyond the control of the establishment, and we saw TV as the enemy.

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.

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

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

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

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.