#punk rock

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock. ↗

— Travis Barker

#every #i #i can #i love #into

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#black #black music #comes #music #out

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom. ↗

— Patti Smith

#freedom #me #punk #punk rock #rock

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

— Kim Gordon

#done #i #just #like #meant

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#greatest #growing #growing up #i #learned

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

#came #could #creating #ever #grassroots

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing. ↗

— Greg Ginn

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There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. ↗

— John Cusack

#age #air #also #america #apocalypse

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

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Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

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