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Definition of Punk

Punk

Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.

An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.

A prostitute; a strumpet.

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Punk Quotations

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
Billie Joe Armstrong

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
Billie Joe Armstrong

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
Leonardo DiCaprio

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
Neil Young

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

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.
Billy Bragg

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
Billy Bragg

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
Megan Fox

My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
Winona Ryder

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
Vivienne Westwood

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
Vivienne Westwood

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
David Byrne

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
Ben Harper

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

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
Travis Barker

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
Travis Barker

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.
Travis Barker

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

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
Jello Biafra

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Jello Biafra

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
Dave Grohl

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
Dave Grohl

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

Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that.
Piper Perabo

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Andre Agassi

I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.
Milo Ventimiglia

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Punk Translations

punk in Dutch is tonderzwam, tondel, tonder, zwam
punk in Hungarian is punk, vacak dolog

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