John Cooper Clarke Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.

From the age of 14 onwards it was really punk rock, The Clash particularly. I think I learnt more from them than I did at school, because that got me into fashion, politics.

When I was a teenager, you were either a punk, a skinhead or a mod, or you weren't on the scene. Me and my mates were skinheads.

I was a huge punker growing up.

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

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

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

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

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.

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

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

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

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.