Rick Rubin
Related Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock... AL JOURGENSEN When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my ... JUANES GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New ... STEVEN ADLER BILLY IDOL GARRETT HEDLUND It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all ... JAMES MARSTERS When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. ... GREG KURSTIN MIKE DIRNT BILLY IDOL MOBY I like listening to punk rock. COLLIN LAPP I was a nerdy punk-rock kid. MIKE D I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'sou... PATRICK STUMP JENNIFER EGAN I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into i... BUZZ OSBORNE VIVIENNE WESTWOOD When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day I'd be punk rock, and the ... ASHLEY BENSON BILLY IDOL All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music ... MIKE D A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. TRAVIS BARKER I do what I want. I'm punk rock. MICHAEL CLIFFORD KURT COBAIN There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude... TODD PHILLIPS I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock commun... MARK HOPPUS Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band ne... STEVEN ADLER I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the ne... DEE DEE RAMONE BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Punk rock seems like my childhood, the glorious, very exciting naivete of rock n' roll. Stenguns and... TONY JAMES I don't wanna play to 40-year-old rock guys in 20-year-old rock T-shirts. TODD YOUTH Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play. JOEY RAMONE Propriety is the new punk. ALDUS SANTOS KURT COBAIN HENRY ROLLINS I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar. DAVE PIRNER I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand ... MARK MOTHERSBAUGH Punk Rock Is Not A Crime! DERYCK WHIBLEY I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's... MARK HOPPUS CRAIG FERGUSON NICK RHODES NICK RHODES I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience, JOHN DOE KURT COBAIN DAVE GROHL When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock... ANNA SUI It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like,... GLENN DANZIG HENRY ROLLINS Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atr... PERRY FARRELL Y'know, when I first started listening to punk rock music, I used to get my fucking ass kicked for i... GREEN DAY Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle. GREEN DAY GRANT MORRISON BILLY IDOL Rancid are real punk-rock dudes, you know, but they came out with the opposite attitude, CHUCK COMEAU BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I jus... CAT POWER KURT COBAIN I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing. MIKE WATT So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool ... SLASH A simple explanation would be punk rock. We call it slant rock. It can go in a lot of directions. DEREK SAPIENZA As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then... KASKADE Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just k... BRANDON THOMAS JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL I grew up listening to a lot of classic rock, everything from the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin to ... JOSH NIELSEN BOB RILEY If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity.... AARON RUELL GREG GRAFFIN KURT COBAIN No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of ... SOFEA SHAH Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed ... YELAWOLF CHUCK D The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. ARTO LINDSAY WALTER BECKER It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happene... PENELOPE SPHEERIS I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, l... YELAWOLF RICK RUBIN You're encouraged when you get older to get mellow, get reflective, get laid back. I don't understan... STEVE WYNN What do you do when your kid can only count to four? Buy him a drumkit and call him gifted!GREEN DAY LANCE LOUD DAVE GROHL The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because be... JANE WIEDLIN We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie. KIM ANDERSON Члены групп не отличались от публики ни убеждениями, н�... CRAIG O'HARA I’VE ALWAYS BEEN AN ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT KIND OF PERSON. HAVING BEEN A PART OF THE HARD CORE PUNK SC... ANJI BEE All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now. KIM GORDON For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless. KIM GORDON BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG PAUL DANO GARY KEMP KURT COBAIN We're pretty much loud, fast, trashy punk rock. A lot of people say we're older-school sound as oppo... SCOTT ROZELL KURT COBAIN CRAIG FERGUSON When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Ne... CASSADEE POPE BARACK OBAMA I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for m... IMELDA MAY VILLE VALO JELLO BIAFRA Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock t... PATRICK STUMP BILLY JOEL Preps and jocks suck we don't wear your Abercrombie so don't listen to our punk rock! DERYCK WHIBLEY JON BON JOVI
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I still put that into Devil's Playground. I believe there's a punk rock attitude to it. I don't thin... 
I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take pho... 
When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the rad... 
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die. 
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... 
I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate ... 
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle. 
punk rock is freedom 
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't... 
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. 
After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock. 
Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk ro... 
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, &... 
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. 
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time togeth... 
My interest in comics was scribbled over with a revived, energized passion for clothes, records, and... 
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. 
'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably sho... 
God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our L... 
In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And h... 
I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatle... 
I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That... 
At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock becau... 
Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock... 
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had po... 
I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC. 
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of gl... 
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. 
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active bla... 
We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from n... 
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. 
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me. 
Richie has lost 20 lbs, is rock hard, and plays his ass off 
At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock becau... 
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do ... 
Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a se... 
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after... 
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to... 
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that hav... 
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and frag... 
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. 
The backseat produced the sexual revolution. 
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When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Chur... 
I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can ... 
It is a complete and devastating break of the security of wireless networks. 
Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on ...