Quotes for All
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being ‘the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature’. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice. Deborah … Read more
You know I’m a lady, but when you get me mad, I can be as hardcore as Sabu or Taz! Dawn Marie Psaltis
As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music. David Pajo
I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart, to Discharge and the Bad Brains, and to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So I think there’s merit to both the melodic punk and to the hardcore stuff too. Dave Smalley
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
CBGB was a wild place, … The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you’ve ever been to in your … Read more
There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they’re not. Daniel Johns
In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it. This year, you have seen a lot of … Read more
Some boy nuh know dis, dem only come around like tourist. On the beach with a few club sodas. Bedtime stories, and pose like dem name Chuck Norris and don’t know the real hardcore. Damian Marley
I’ve played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk… I’ve done it all. And all there really is music and at the end of the day, anybody who has a record and puts out a record that’s basically the same song 13 times over on one record; to me they’re just cheating the fans. Cristian Machado