Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

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.

To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.

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

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

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 music is rebellious.

To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.

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

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

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

I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

When things socially and politically get difficult, punk music suddenly comes back again, and there's just a really healthy pivot away from music that's not humanly understandable.

My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very entirely popular, and it was sort of like the adversary to mainstream culture and beliefs.