49 Quotes About Punk

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while 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 Billy Corgan

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

Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it’s a thought process. Dominic Owen Mallary

The deaf people there with balloons, holding them up and feeling the vibrations of the balloons to the Germs, all these fuckin' great bands, and using these balloons and dancing around. For a tough old punk, it just made your heart -- it gave you that beautiful feeling. They loved the music, and we were making money for them. Jack Boulware

Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am Joey Ramone

Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am. Joey Ramone

Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid. Garth Risk Hallberg

I was just going to stand here and watch it happen. I wasn’t going to say a fucking thing. Why? Because what did it matter? What did any of it matter? Joe Meno

All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days... Brenna Ehrlich

Funny, cute and kissable I've found a girl that makes me lose control Every night's like the first night Never gettin' old The Summer Set

Yeah, You rocked my world forever I know you still remember How we felt before Yeah, We should be together' Cause nothing could be better Than the way we were Baby, let's go back to the way we were Let's turn back the clock This time we'll take it slow You can stay the night, This time I won't let go And when the morning comes, We can start all over, over again Why did we say goodbye? Let's go back tonight . The Summer Set

Oh, the truth I must tell Is I'm lonely as hell Still looking for myself The Summer Set

Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk. Beth Ditto

Never say amen in church if they'recapping off a prayer about you. Exene Cervenka

No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn’t a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn’t plan to die young. Death is so boring. Sofea Shah

The patches are the stories. Hold onto that. And the muddy zigzag of ducktape against the cracked doorglass. There's four kids who sleep here, a nuff for the fingers on each otherses hands. There's room in each of them for one important thing. They're a band. It's not they're in a band. They're a band. Four spikes of ducktape, up and down, like mountain peaks or a sawblade. Every band's got a sign, something to sew on your jacket, gouge on the wall at a show. Four spikes up and down say MEATHEADS, and you picked a fucked window to knock at, tourist. They're the best band in the world. Noah Wareness

Punker, what's compassion for a world this far gone? The streets don't give a fuck. It's a bummer, your care slides down its target like beads of rain on rock. There's no aquifer for any shit like this. Where does compassion go and can it be returned? You're Donn in this world, with the staff and the purple band. The artificer. Walking the bandoned suites of hell and your eyeballs thinking, what can be saved? Not their gear but its aspects. You started kung fu way later than the rest, and before that you saw compassion in a history spiel. Now it keeps washing up on your shore. Giving a shit might be made of parts, it might be made solo. It might be an invasive species or not. Punks evolved from dinos too. Not even cross time and distance. But the spikes on their heads are the same. . Noah Wareness

In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black. Kate Rockland

It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible. Justin Sirois

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks...(i Viva la Gloria! ) Green Day

Halfway through the set, the lead singer, who goes by Cloud, knife in hand, begins to stab at the cutout of Copal Brandt with a lion's passion. Out of nowhere blood is produced and Cloud proceeds to rub it all over his own face and body, then on his own bandmates. Afterwards he roars into the microphone, 'Do you know why we're doing this, McAllen? We're doing this FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! . Fernando A. Flores

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be. Avril Lavigne

Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy! " yelled a punk rocker, with studs in his cranium. "There's a fackin' q David Mitchell

Vladimir stood next to one of the beams on the back porch of our new home, leaning on his back. He reached in his pocket and grabbed a pack of cigarettes, Marlboro Reds which were his favorites, and he lit one up. He was dressed all in black; black skinny jeans, black studded belt, black tennis shoes, black v neck shirt and he had the hood of his black jacket up over his head. He looked cool and collected, and somewhat villainous.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1) . Nina Jean Slack

You'll be having a good time and all of a sudden everyone will start running to the bathroom. If you're going to do drugs just do them in front of everybody, don't be running off to the bathroom. It's rude. Eileen Polk

I have no life there if you're not in it. You're part of everything good I've ever done, Ryen. Please. Penelope Douglas

He's a reminder of what I want to feel everyday, whether it's with him or on my own. He's taught me that who I am when I'm with him feels too good to sacrifice for the approval of everyone else. The way I dress, the guys I talk to, the games I play... it's all plastic, and when I'm with him, I'm gold. Penelope Douglas

I bite my bottom lip, trying not to cry. I never cry in front of them. Penelope Douglas

You turn me on.” He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek.”“ God, you turn me on. You're driving me crazy. I want you to need my hands on you. Do you? Penelope Douglas

She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream. Penelope Douglas

I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself. Penelope Douglas

I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she's going to drag me there herself. Penelope Douglas

Fashion is never wrong. Malcolm McLaren

The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere. Phil Strongman

They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die. If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem. Bucky Sinister

You know how long's the universe. It's seven million freeways side by side. You know how high. So high the moon just falls. But little punks, you still know the hardcore of the universe. It's cause you're hardcore too. You're made of pure universe, under your bones. And nothing ever starts shit by meaning to. We meant to break down the amerikan dream throwing bottles. All we broke was bottles. What worked was one stolen handful of flax seed. All ages shows in the highschool parkade, and the keys to the bandroom door. Their dream was a joke anyway. What worked was a nother joke. Noah Wareness

We are the anarchists your parents warned you about. Suzy Kassem

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies. Magenta Periwinkle

Should have taken warning it's just People mourning Running, hiding, lost You can't find, find a place to go, so it's Red skies at night Red skies at night, whoa oh, oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.. red skies at night, red skies at night, whoa oh, oh oh oh.. Someone's taking over, and it look like they're aiming right at you.. Someone said we'll be dead by morning.. Someone cries, leaving.. red skies at night, whoa oh-h-h . Unknown

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. David Byrne

All punk rockers hate Christmas. Rhys Ifans

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. James Surowiecki

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian. Greg Graffin

I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown. Mary Kay Andrews