Gina Schock Quotes

I saw G.G. Allin live once.

I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.

The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

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.'

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.

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

In terms of stage presence for me, I'm influenced by a myriad of things. A lot of punk performers, people like Dave Vanian from The Damned and Davey Havok from AFI was a huge influence on me when I was younger.

The Sex Pistols came through Atlanta, and I got to go see them. That was historic. It blew me away; it was so much fun. I bought 45s of bands you don't hear about anymore.

The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.

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.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different from a track; live is just so unique and cool because the energy is just so different. I cannot wait to have live performances.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

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

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

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.

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