#punk

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then. ↗

— Adam Oates

#bad guy #because #good #good person #guy

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#brown #guy #i #interested #james

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#biggest #cool #got #i #i quit

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

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#certain point #confrontational #element #iconoclastic #jazz

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything. ↗

— Patti Smith

#called #godmother #i #me #myself

I love punk rock, but I also love metal. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#i #i love #love #metal #punk

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#appreciation #bands #because #decline #did

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism. ↗

— Justin Sane

#fighting #great #history #i #listening

What makes us the strongest tribe on the continent is the fact that a group that opposes these values--a group that would have mankind remain in the new dark ages--is permitted to grow, permitted to exist...and, after it becomes a violent terrorist organization, is allowed to live on it own lands, taken out of the lands of those it has attacked and continues to attack!" He had to stop speaking then--the applause was louder than even his amplified voice. "They expect that fear will drive us to become like them...closed-minded, blind, angry. Our society will remain open and free so long as I am standing upright," he continued, once the applause died down. ↗

— Lia Habel

#steampunk #zombies #age