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“DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'”

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Author:Thurston Moore

“After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.”

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Author:Eddie Vedder

“Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.”

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Author:Malcolm Mclaren

“Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'”

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Author:Joe Strummer

“When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.”

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Author:Avicii

“When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.”

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Author:Kim Gordon

“Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.”

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Author:John Rzeznik

“Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.”

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Author:Andy Greenwald

“My name's Punk. CM Punk.”

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Author:CM Punk

“These people want you to quit just like CM Punk did.”

People Want Quitting Wwe Punk Cm Punk

Author:Stephanie McMahon

“In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread their legacy. I miss Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was a great man. So right now, I don't want to hear 'CM Punk', you know the name I wanna hear.”

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Author:CM Punk

“It's a good time to be CM Punk right now.”

Right Now Good Times Wwe Punk Cm Punk

Author:CM Punk

“I think it's because I'm real. Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm not trying to lie to the people or be fake. I'm not trying to be some crazy, outlandish character. I'm real and they appreciate that. Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.”

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Author:CM Punk

“It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s actually much more interesting and exciting than someone who is paying homage.”

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Author:Thomas Bangalter

“I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.”

Thinking Wells Play Three Week Messages Punk Chords

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.”

World Rocks Proud Right Now Punk Punk Rock

Author:Mike Dirnt

“Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!”

Form Folks Punk Folk Music

Author:Michelle Shocked

“The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout – some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.”

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Author:Michael Muhammad Knight

“My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little I think that's where the tie comes from.”

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Author:Gary Allan

“I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.”

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Author:Ville Valo

“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.”

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Author:Kreayshawn

“Is there a better wrestling villain on TV these days than CM Punk? Arguable question but for my sauce, Punk is right there at the top of the heap with a handful of his peers.”

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Author:Jim Ross

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

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Author:Wade Barrett

“I did enjoy the broadcasting work of King, Punk and Josh Mathews last Monday on Raw. Josh is a hard working young man who does his homework and he did well with his opportunity to sit at the grown up table on Raw.”

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Author:Jim Ross

“I'm jumping in right now. And I'm going to say that everybody I know has a 'day I met CM Punk story' and they're all 100% fabrication. It's all bullshit. Thank you.”

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Author:CM Punk

“I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.”

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Author:Billy Idol

“They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'”

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Author:Billy Idol

“My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.”

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Author:Billy Idol

“I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.”

Actresses Punk Convincing

Author:Jenny Eclair

“I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.”

Posts Punk Youtube Gaming

Author:Malcolm Mclaren

“I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.”

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Author:Billy Childish

“I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on 'Punk'd' or 'That 70s Show' get him wrong. There's much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.”

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Author:Nigel Cole

“Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.”

Country Rocks Music Is Originals Punk Punk Rock

Author:Neko Case

“I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.”

Thinking Hate I Hate Punk

Author:Troy Duffy

“I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.”

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Author:Jennifer Egan

“He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.”

Quality Ballet Punk

Author:Avril Lavigne

“Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.”

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Author:Jonny Greenwood

“I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.”

Thinking Years Done Rocks Picks Meant To Be Punk Bass Punk Rock Playing Bass

Author:Kim Gordon

“I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.”

“I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.”

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Author:Susanna Hoffs

“When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.”

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Author:Frank Iero

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