Punk Lifestyle Quotes

People who are creative, who do it as a lifestyle, it's kind of silly to make that claim you're done, because you just never know when that spark is going to hit you again. You can't necessarily predict how you're going to feel. In ten years I'll be 58, and I might still feel like making a punk record.

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.

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 I was in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, Green Day was my formative entry to punk. I wish I could say I was listening to Minor Threat and Black Flag, but I wasn't. Bay Area punk bands were doing it right.

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.

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

We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'

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

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

What irritates me are bands that pretend they've never heard of the Misfits or Danzig, but they've got the skeleton shirt.

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.

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

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

We grew up listening to so much hardcore: everything from the very early D.C. stuff - Teen Idols, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, SOA, Government Issue - to bands who weren't straight edge, like Negative Approach. I really feel they were one of the greatest punk bands ever.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

I was a massive Sid Vicious fanatic.