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“When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.”

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Author:Moby

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”

Black Rocks Students Poet Friends My Friends Performances Feminist Active Professors Punk Mistaken Punk Rock Marxist Anti-american Leather Jackets Dreams From My Father

Book:Dreams From My Father

Source: Dreams From My Father

“The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.”

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Author:Trey Parker

“I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.”

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Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.”

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Author:Alan Rickman

“The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.”

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Author:Rob Sheffield

“To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.”

Successful Rocks Who You Are Being Successful Punk Punk Rock Be Who You Are

Author:Patti Smith

“Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.”

Has Beens Rocks Musical Punk Accurate Hostile Punk Rock Virtuosity

Author:James Surowiecki

“I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.”

Firsts Persons Artist Rocks Punk First Person Punk Rock Hairstyles

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.”

Thinking Moments Song Sound Rocks Boots Punk Seductive Punk Rock Sponges

Author:Bono

“Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.”

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Author:Yelawolf

“I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!”

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Author:Caitlin Moran

“After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“Being in love is totally punk rock.”

Love Is Rocks Punk Being In Love Punk Rock

Author:Joey Comeau

“A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!”

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Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.”

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Author:Kurt Cobain

“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”

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Author:Kurt Cobain

“Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.”

Form Rocks Music Is Rap Punk Punk Rock Rap Music

Author:Kurt Cobain

“Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.”

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Author:Kurt Cobain

“I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.”

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Author:Kurt Cobain

“Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.”

Black Music Rocks Rap Punk Punk Rock Black Music

Author:Stanley Crouch

“It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves”

Country Lasts Passion Magic Rocks Punk Last Time Punk Rock Grunge Cobain

Author:James Marsters

“I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.”

Country School Used Stuff Rocks High School Photograph Folks Punk Back When Punk Rock Venues Soulful

Author:Garrett Hedlund

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

Art Form Rocks Punk Punk Rock

Author:Tre Cool

“I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.”

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Author:Noomi Rapace

“When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day Id be punk rock, and the next I would be tomboyish, and then I would be really girly. I was so weird. My two best friends and I were just crazy and goofy!”

Two Different Would Be Next Crazy Rocks One Day Punk Phases Punk Rock Goofy Girly Two Best Friends

Author:Ashley Benson

“I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.”

Thinking Whole Bigs Middle Rocks Talent Fingers Punk Punk Rock Middle Finger

Author:Mike Watt

“My personal style is eclectic, I would say. I always like to mix and match things. Uh, but the thing is that it changes every single day. So if I'm feeling you know a little more rebellious, one day I may dress a little more punk rock. But most of the time I say, pretty consistently, I'm feminine.”

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Author:Crystal Reed

“Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.”

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Author:Jane Wiedlin

“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want...and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.”

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Author:Billy Corgan

“Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.”

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Author:Ian MacKaye

“And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.”

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Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

“The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.”

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Author:Malcolm Mclaren

“I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.”

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Author:Jack White

“There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.”

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Author:John Cusack

“I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's lives and business as much as possible. I love punk rock. I believe in a strong national defense. I have a tattoo. I believe government should always be efficient and accountable. I have lots of gay friends. And yes, I am a Republican.”

People Thinking Should Believe Government Strong I Believe Black Environment Rocks Republican Gay Concerned I Believe In Defense Efficient Punk Tattoo Punk Rock National Defense Gay Friend

Author:Meghan McCain

“Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.”

Problem Fans Rocks Products Terrible Soccer Punk Punk Rock

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.”

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Author:Justin Sane

“Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.”

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Author:Justin Sane

“Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.”

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Author:Pete Wentz

“Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.”

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Author:Patrick Stump

“Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.”

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Author:Greg Ginn

“The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.”

Able Happened Share Rocks Lifetime Best Things Punk Punk Rock

Author:Steve Albini

“If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.”

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Book:Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

Source: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

“Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.”

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Author:Julie Powell

“I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.”

Ifs Men Want Needs I Can Important Asks Grows Goal Growing Up Feminism Mines Conversation Men And Women Feminist Singers Ask Me Discussion Convince Convincing Punk Rock

Author:Kathleen Hanna

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