top of page
More

"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."
Author Name
Personal Development

"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
Author Name
Personal Development

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

"The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies."
Author Name
Personal Development

"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers."
Disguise

"The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important."
Pretty

"This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs."
Home

"That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash."
Time

"So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all."
Understanding

"I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters."
Disaster

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

"What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for."
Marketing

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

"We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out."
Money
bottom of page