#punk rock

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

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock. ↗

— Travis Barker

#every #i #i can #i love #into

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing. ↗

— Mike Watt

#especially #finger #i #i think #me

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

— Penelope Spheeris

#i #i love #love #metal #punk

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

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

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#down #ethics #grass #grass roots #had

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#came #could #creating #ever #grassroots