Michael Stipe Quotes About Punk Rock

• The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."

  Michael Stipe

  Rocks, Voice, Special

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."

  Michael Stipe

  Teenage, Player, Rocks

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .

  Michael Stipe

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Salían discos de punk-rock y comprabas lo que encontrabas. Pero Devo no apareció hasta dentro de tres años. Sex Pistols no salieron de gira por Estados Unidos hasta el 78. En aquella época, para mí, todo giraba en torno al CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, los Ramones y Television.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Cbgb, Rocks

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

  Michael Stipe

  Sexy, Dark, America

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

  Michael Stipe

  Rocks, Ethos, Heaven

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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