I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
Anthony Kiedis
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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.
Alison Mosshart
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AC/DC 'Back in Black' - Those were my punk rock days.
Pepa
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I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.
Norman Reedus
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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
Kurt Cobain
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I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting Grammys. So getting a Grammy nomination wasn't bad, it just wasn't meaningful.
James Murphy
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I love it at our shows when there's the big, tough, punk guys standing next to the weird teenagers and the gay guys. It's so weird, and it's so awesome.
Hunx
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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.
Greg Ginn
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I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.
Fred Armisen
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I feel like I'm a rock artist. I don't feel like I'm a pop artist. And I'm alt rock. I'm indie rock. I'm punk rock. Because it comes from the pots and pans. It's a lot of me, but I've got multiple personalities.
CeeLo Green
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By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
Billy Bragg
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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.
Avicii
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I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.
Vivienne Westwood
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I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.
Nick Hornby
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I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
Gavin Rossdale
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I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie rock.
Carrie Brownstein
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I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.
Ben Lovett
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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
Langhorne Slim
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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.
Gary Allan
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All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.
Joey Ramone
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The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.
Eddie Vedder
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Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
Jello Biafra
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I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Andre Agassi
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