“Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.” PeopleChallengesMusic IsCorporationsPunkRottenParticipatingJohnny Rotten Author:Kathleen Hanna
“[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.” PeopleThinkingEndsCountryRocksMusic IsFinalsAppealsPurityDestinationPunkPrecisionPunk RockRockersFinal DestinationRockabilly Author:John C. Reilly
“I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.” TryingYearsFirstsMadeAgeAbleParentMy OwnHeardRocksProduceEvolutionBandMusicianMusic IsGuitarRadioPopsClassicReliefCopiesPunkTapePop MusicRock MusicElectronic MusicRecordersPlaying GuitarClassic RockRock Musicians Author:Christian Fennesz
“In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.” PeopleWayMadeMatterWhiteLevelsMusic IsNo Matter WhatIntentionRapStoresMade ItPunkGangstaGangsta RapRecorded Music Author:Eyvind Kang
“I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.” ThinkingTogetherRocksMusic IsPopsPunkRock Music Author:Travis Barker
“Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.” WellsRocksMusic IsPunkAcidCan't ChangePunk RockRockabilly Author:Chuck Berry
“Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.” PerfectMastersMusic IsInstrumentsPunkPerfect For MePunk Music Author:James Paxton
“I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.” ThinkingWayStillsPlayBandMusic IsDuesPunkEmpowered Author:John K. Samson
“I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.” ArtTogetherBrainMusic IsPunkSkateboarding Author:Alison Mosshart
“I think music is just a great place to focus your energy and your feelings. If you're young, you can take all that stuff that you feel so intensely about - especially these days, but I'm not going to go there - but to take all those feelings and put them into music was such a big deal for me to be able to play punk rock songs. It was such a release for me. It's a good thing for parents to support that.” ThinkingFeelingsSongEnergyParentSupportFocusMusic IsGood ThingsPunkPunk Rock Author:Ali Koehler
“People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.” PeopleThinkingMusic IsPunkFolk Music Author:Avey Tare