Quotes for All
From what I see, nowadays punk and anarchy are still connected with fast loud music by smelly drunk chaos-people and, yes, I know I’m over-generalizing here. So when the occasional venue still describes us The ex as anarchopunk that’s a real bummer, since it attracts an audience that expects a kind of music – which … Read more
Punk, and rock in general, is often very myopic. When people sing about the world, they’re generally focused almost entirely on the west and Europe. Sometimes South America. Sometimes Asia. But rarely Africa. The Ex, famously, is one of the few rock acts to travel and perform in Africa which, may be home to more … Read more
To me, the main idea of punk was do-it-yourself, which meant that you could basically do anything that you would wanna do. You don’t have to wait to be allowed to do it. Anarchy was more or less about the same thing, so for me they were closely related. G.W. Sok
I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar. Ezra Furman
I thought [ as a kid], Maybe I don’t want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter, and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible. Ezra Furman
In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, Oh, that’s not cool. That’s gangsta rap. That’s white supremacist punk. But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made … Read more
On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don’t use your scale. Eugene Mirman
My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that’s exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene … Read more
I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I’d spit in a minute. Etta James
Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don’t think, ‘Godfathers of Punk.’ You just think, ‘This sounds great.’ The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that’s going to stick in somebody’s memory. But it doesn’t describe it. So ‘depressing’ … Read more