Kevin Morby Quotes

Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

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

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

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.

I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.

Hardcore bands were coming out with names like Urban Waste and The Mob, you know, a lot of kind of tough names. So Beastie Boys was the stupidest name we could come up with. And unfortunately, it stuck.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.

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

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

I'm the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time... for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.

I don't think any punk bands really ever got their due.

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

For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.

I do not know what kind of relationship Jim Carroll and The Ramones had, though I imagine they all knew each other, as they ran in the same scene.