Vivienne Westwood Quotes

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

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

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

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

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.

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.

I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.

I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

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.

To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.