I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.
In the beginning, the punk scene was so full of promise. All the bands were different, and all the sounds were different. The common denominator was that it was all very young kids doing it, and doing it on their terms. But then it became, 'You should listen to this and you should wear this uniform, and you shouldn't do this or that. ' It was supposed to be about not having rules, but every generation of music gets watered down.
1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".
Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.
Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.
I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It felt like you had this naïve idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.
I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.
Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.
I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.
I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.
Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.
I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that you dieAnd your death'll come soon I will follow your casket In the pale afternoon. . . ") this was a previously unknown hybrid of caustic political commentary and punk rock, which itself wouldn't be invented for another decade or so.
Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk. ' You just think, 'This sounds great. ' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.
I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery. . . it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk