Punk Attitude Quotes

#1. All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

Frederick Lenz

#2. I am conscious of a partly pathological hostility toward what is fashionable.

C.S. Lewis

#3. When the head of the Hyundai Motor Company, Chung Mong-koo, was fighting with his younger brother Chung Mong-hun over the company's management, he is said to have consulted a fortune-teller.

Kim Young-ha

#4. Work is the best antidote to sorrow

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body ... show your personality as much as possible.

Billy Idol

#6. It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

Lyle Lovett

#7. Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

David Byrne

#8. Maybe when it comes to my music, or my performances, I'm a little more aggressive because I want everything to be perfect. But not in normal, day-to-day life.

Tinie Tempah

#9. I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

Malcolm McLaren

#10. I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

Hayley Williams

#11. When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Herman Melville

#12. This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?

Marilyn Manson

#13. On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

Eddie Van Halen

#14. Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the Jerusalem man,' among others - but my favourite has to be 'Waylander': Clint Eastwood with a crossbow and the same 'Make my day, punk' attitude.

Neal Asher

#15. And in that moment, Grace understood something that she would never forget: Home wasn't just a building or an apartment with a roof and beds and chairs inside. Home was with her family, wherever they were.

Priscilla Cummings

#16. 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.

Todd Phillips

#17. Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

Barack Obama

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

Everett True

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

Joey Ramone

#20. Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

Joe Strummer

#21. I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Billy Idol

#22. When you die you say "Game Over" and that's all the game is over. You as an actor you die with this character stuff, but a new character is build.

Deyth Banger

#23. Punk ... was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.

David Byrne

#24. I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

Sade Adu

#25. Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

Jack White

#26. Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust.

Liz Goldwyn

#27. Each given of life comes to us trailing many graces.

David Richo

#28. Ecause human beings cannot remain grateful for long, you know.

Farahad Zama