“ 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 a garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy! ”
- Billie Joe Armstrong- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting. ”
- Gus Van Sant- Copy
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“ If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka. ”
- Dennis Miller- Copy
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“ I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. ”
- Avril Lavigne- Copy
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“ Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style. ”
- Perry Farrell- Copy
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“ I wanted to move to Seattle, sell my ass, and be a punk rocker, but I was too afraid. ”
- Kurt Cobain- Copy
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“ I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake. ”
- Ian MacKaye- Copy
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“ I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort of fell in their laps-especially the Offspring. My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity, at least remember the human factor… ”
- Jello Biafra- Copy
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“ I haven't studied with anyone. doing it yourself is something I took from punk rock, though I believe that's a pretty bankrupt myth, that one does it themself. When we all do it ourself, we're all doing it, aren't we? ”
- Ian Williams- Copy
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“ I listened to lots of different things. I was a real big Pat Benatar fan, and the Wilson sisters I loved Heart. Pink Floyd. I went through a punk phase: I liked the Sex Pistols. Never got into the Ramones. Now Johnny Ramone is one of my best friends, but I never really heard his stuff until I got to be friends with him. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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“ The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden — as an unpatriotic act — that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Maybe if I get off the road and stop playing with punk rock bands, there'll be a lot more records. It would probably involve me getting out of the conventional music business as we know it and heading more towards a self-sufficient, self-structured release-type thing… ”
- Bob Mould- Copy
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“ I almost lost my band over Pat Travers. He had the spirit but he was so cocky. The rest of them couldn't understand why I let somebody like that into the band. Even Al Brisco couldn't handle him and he is the nicest, most easy-going cat. Pat was just a wild punk but I thought he had something. ”
- Ronnie Hawkins- Copy
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