#punk rock

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle. ↗

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

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

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves. ↗

— James Marsters

#always #back #because #chopin #cobain

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#doing #going #once #outside #punk

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

#beauty #below #going #know #lot

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#ever #experience #first #green #green bay

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded. ↗

— Al Jourgensen

#basic #floyd #i #i think #influenced

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 love punk rock, but I also love metal. ↗