#punk

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. ↗

— Joey Ramone

#against #am #being #going #grain

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#blonde hair #dyed #had #hair #i

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career. ↗

— Amy Ray

#being #career #country #create #front

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement. ↗

— Nick Rhodes

#been #glam #grew #important #movement

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#down #i #me #most #people

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#big #grew #had #heroes #his

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#being #big #big change #change #ever

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid. ↗

— Tom Jones

#bands #because #fashion #i #like

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. ↗

— Kesha

#country #country music #day #i #i love

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#everybody #gutter #i #little #punk