Punk Attitude Quotes

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

I'm really into, like, characters - music characters like Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain - just, like, how they are and stuff. Like Lil Wayne.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic punk bands, like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat - all those bands that you get into when you're first getting into punk.

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.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

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.

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

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.

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

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

When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other.

Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

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

I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.

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

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff.

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

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

I was really into Blink-182 and punk bands like NOFX and MXPX.