Julien Baker Quotes

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

Punk rock and straight edge will always be married together. As far as me integrating that with wrestling, I learned a lot from punk rock.

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

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

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

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

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

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

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.

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.

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

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

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

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

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

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

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

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

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.

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.

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.

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.

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

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.