Punk Subculture Quotes

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

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 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.

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

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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'm the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time... for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.

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.

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

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

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

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

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

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.

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

It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like, 'Punk rock? Put it back. It's just a flash in the pan.'