Punk Band Quotes

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.

I did not initially take to the music of the Ramones, because I had never really heard of them before. Allan Arkush had given me a cassette of the Ramones and said, "You're their No. 1 fan, so I want you to know all of their songs and fall in love with these guys." I put the cassette on and I remember running around the house going, "Oh my God. That's music?"

I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

Hardcore bands were coming out with names like Urban Waste and The Mob, you know, a lot of kind of tough names. So Beastie Boys was the stupidest name we could come up with. And unfortunately, it stuck.

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

When I first moved to New York in 2006, I spent most of my time hanging out at and going to shows at a punk house in Crown Heights called The Fort where, amongst many roommates, my friend Johnny lived. Johnny loves The Germs, the legendary L.A. punk band fronted by the late, great Darby Crash.

What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.

If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.

The Germs' contribution to history sucks as far as I'm concerned.

We definitely were a punk band. When we got in with our producer, Richard Gottehrer, he slowed everything down so that you could actually hear what Belinda was singing.

Band I listen to most: The Ramones.

I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

I wanted to write a song called '#1234' that would act as a homage to The Ramones.