#punk

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian. ↗

— Adam Ant

#i #punk #rocker

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#fun #pit #punk #without

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#always #been #doing #freedom #individuality

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song. ↗

— Travis Barker

#bands #changes #different #go #lot

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#almost #chain #i #i think #malls

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

— Jello Biafra

#down #ethics #grass #grass roots #had

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#always #classes #discovered #drawn #during

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

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#had #heavy #i #important #listen

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it. ↗

— Tre Cool

#another #art #art form #become #doing