Punk Quotes

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean. - Billie Joe Armstrong

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. - Travis Barker

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

[The second stage also offered performances by Brooklyn's The Brought Low, world-music fusionists Yerba Buena, who delivered the best set of the day, gypsy punk from Gogol Bordello, and Afro-beat from Antibalas. As evening fell, Snoop Dogg performed an uneven set that peaked on his covers, a version of Biggie Small's] Hypnotize ... La Di Da Di. - Sean Combs

[The movie looks] inside our personalities and the stresses and the excitement of putting on pretty much the biggest punk show of all time. - Green Day

[Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz said part of his band's enthusiasm for the project came from being able to teach a new generation about punk heroes like the band they covered, New York's legendary Gorilla Biscuits.] It's a band that we grew up on and thought was really cool... It's definitely influenced Fall Out Boy, so it's definitely cool to be a stepping stone for that band for people to check them out. - Pete Wentz

(It's) like a Parisian punkette. You know, originally the punk (were) English so it's the French version of punk which means a kind of bourgeois. A little chic, elegant and (some kind of) accident (can) happen. - Jean-Paul Gaultier