Mura Masa 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.

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

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

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 was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

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.

Punk music is rebellious.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

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.

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.

What Public Enemy and Underground Resistance had in common was a rejection of the idea of music as entertainment.

All punk music is is rebellion, going against the grain. It takes different forms. Sometimes it's a band throwing their instruments around or making really violent and noisy sounds, but it doesn't have to take that sonic form. It can take more of an energy.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

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

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.

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