Cool Punk Rock Quotes

#1. By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

Michael Stipe

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

Tre Cool

#3. Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

Marshall McLuhan

#5. If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.

Mark Lawrence

#6. Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Avril Lavigne

#7. I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

Dee Dee Ramone

#8. No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

Bertrand Russell

#9. I think that if you've got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.

Max Beesley

#10. Punk is an attitude. Hardcore is a lifestyle. the first seeks to subvert society. The second aims to live outside of it.

Everett True

#11. The sun is still there ... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

Elizabeth Goudge

#12. I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#13. The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.

Ban Ki-moon

#14. In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And he was, you know, he made science look cool. And in punk rock, we haven't had that. We haven't had the Carl Sagan of punk.

Greg Graffin

#15. Life is like an old-time rail journey
delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#16. Enjoy life, because life is phenomenal! It's a magnificent trip!

Bob Proctor

#17. I can gab with pretty much anyone.

Kyle Chandler