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Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.


Jello Biafra

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BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle.
GREEN DAY Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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PATRICK STUMP Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who cla...
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BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!
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GREEN DAY Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra and Joe Strummer were among this generation's prophets that foretold of ...
SEAN KEVIN SWEENEY punk rock is freedom
KURT COBAIN Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
KURT COBAIN Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play.
JOEY RAMONE Propriety is the new punk.
ALDUS SANTOS Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just k...
BRANDON THOMAS I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.
ERIC ANDRE You ain't no punk, you punk
You wanna talk about the real junk?
LUX INTERIOR We're a punk band, not so much from a sound perspective, but I still feel like we maintain a punk ap...
AARON WARREN When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.
CHRIS CORNELL I still put that into Devil's Playground. I believe there's a punk rock attitude to it. I don't thin...
BILLY IDOL The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because be...
JANE WIEDLIN I don't need to advertise my punkness. A real punk doesn't need to show off...Its like a Karate man....
BLINK 182 You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human ...
MICHIO KAKU My interest in comics was scribbled over with a revived, energized passion for clothes, records, and...
GRANT MORRISON Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
HENRY ROLLINS I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American pun...
GREG GRAFFIN Giving up is the punk way out.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it’s a t...
DOMINIC OWEN MALLARY I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, ...
JACK ANTONOFF Were you a punk?
DICK ENBERG I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave...
DEAN WAREHAM I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.
SID VICIOUS Punk rock seems like my childhood, the glorious, very exciting naivete of rock n' roll. Stenguns and...
TONY JAMES (Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO...
SID VICIOUS I used to shoot the middle finger at everyone and tell them I'm a punk rocker from York, Pennsylvani...
ED KOWALCZYK Massive Attack hasn't played out here in nine years. Daft Punk hasn't played in eight-and-half years...
PAUL TOLLETT But I wanted to prove to everyone I wasn't this actor's kid who was like a punk - which is stupid.
SCOTT CAAN You realize that an entire generation has passed you by, but it shows how enduring punk really is.
WINSTON SMITH There's nothing wrong with getting paid, ... We have punk bands in our system, and they are very hap...
STEVE ELLIS Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atr...
PERRY FARRELL Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
BILLY JOEL He's a mess, and he's a loudmouth punk.
DON IMUS Preps and jocks suck we don't wear your Abercrombie so don't listen to our punk rock!
DERYCK WHIBLEY I wanted to move to Seattle, sell my ass, and be a punk rocker, but I was too afraid.
KURT COBAIN Feeling lucky punk? Oh, good.
JOE STRUMMER (It's) like a Parisian punkette. You know, originally the punk (were) English so it's the French ver...
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. Whe...
MICHAEL STIPE A simple explanation would be punk rock. We call it slant rock. It can go in a lot of directions.
DEREK SAPIENZA Панк казался нам свежим и ярким явлением, могучим куль�...
LEGS MCNEIL He's like an East Village street punk.
GREG WITTROCK When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the d...
DAVE GROHL Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.
MARC JACOBS I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al...
BILLY BRAGG All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.
JOEY RAMONE Do ya' feel lucky, punk?
CLINT EASTWOOD All punk rockers hate Christmas.
RHYS IFANS 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
PATRICK STUMP It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all ...
JAMES MARSTERS Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you wan...
KURT COBAIN Pop punk has been without revolution.
WILL PUGH Pop punk today isn't going anywhere.
WILL PUGH I like listening to punk rock.
COLLIN LAPP She was the first punk woman.
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Art is sacred.
Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyo...
KURT COBAIN Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibran...
GREG GRAFFIN I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a ...
CAITLIN MORAN I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
MIKE D I don't play 100% punk rock music,
BILLY IDOL I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan ...
BRIAN JOYCE I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then y...
ANDRE AGASSI Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana'...
KURT COBAIN The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...
ARUNDHATI ROY never say amen in church if they're
capping off a prayer about you.
EXENE CERVENKA Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, &...
KURT COBAIN I do what I want. I'm punk rock.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.
BEN HOPKINS Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk co...
BENJAMIN BOOKER Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
MICHELLE SHOCKED When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, caus...
JOE STRUMMER If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95,...
DENNIS MILLER I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked abo...
GARY NUMAN [· For pop-punk hitmakers Good Charlotte , the pride of Waldorf, homecomings don't come sweeter tha...
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NORMAN BLAKE The tour wanted to feature alternative rock and pop-punk bands who exemplified the lifestyle and cor...
KAREN DONNELLY Here and there. Lots of kids nowadays listen to primarily newer punk bands, and I definitely can't s...
ERIC MYERS And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to becaus...
GARY NUMAN What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked a...
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STEVE HARWELL The Grateful Dead gave birth to punk rock in more ways than we realize. That whole concept of 'Do It...
JOSH CLARK My last girlfriend was a feminist, vegan punk who broke up with me because she thought I was too ang...
LEIGH WHANNELL These are good kids. But I'm not ready to give up my spot to some young punk.
DOUG WEIGHT The reason I started, and got into playing punk as a band was quite mercenary, to be honest. I wante...
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AVRIL LAVIGNE I've never been a rocker, and I kind of hate punk rock, ... I grew up on ABBA and the Carpenters. Wh...
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