#punk

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#got #had #hairstyle #i #lipstick

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical. ↗

— Jack White

#came #catholic #catholic guilt #come #egotistical

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention. ↗

— Neil Young

#attention #came #ears #friends #god

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

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#dark #dark side #listening #music #nature

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#college #dropped #enough #go #high

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#career #career opportunities #friends #hardcore #just

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration. ↗

— Ben Harper

#classical #comes #even #find #going

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#college #during #happening #i #movement

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