#punk

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#books #haven #history #i #out

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#been #british #had #i #intently

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless. ↗

— Gary Numan

#because #club #clubs #could #everyone

I shouldn't have to play live just because I've made a record. I get lots of letters 'cos I'm not into the street credibility thing. I don't like that whole thing at all, I've always thought of it as a very glamorous business, the whole thing about putting on a show. All the anti-hero punk thing, it went against everything I've ever wanted to do. ↗

— Gary Numan

#against #always #because #business #cos

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible. ↗

— Gary Numan

#always #been #before #bowie #chased

When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits. ↗

— Gary Numan

#been #before #bits #control #first

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