Matt Skiba Quotes

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.

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

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

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

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe.