Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gibson

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

Robert Quine

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Henry Rollins

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Marc Jacobs

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Eddie Vedder

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

Anna Sui

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

Chuck Berry

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Tyga

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Vikram Seth

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Young Jeezy

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Yoko Ono

Music is like my security blanket.

Ennio Morricone

Music is an experience, not a science.

Jimmy Page

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.