You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you’re too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle-earth. So what’s your style? Three chords, cranked out fast and loud and distorted because your instruments are crap and you can’t play them worth a damn. And you scream your lungs out to cover up the fact that you can’t sing. It should suck, but here’s the thing – it doesn’t. Rock and roll can be so full of itself, but not this. It’s simple and angry and raw.

You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you’re too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle-earth. So what’s your style? Three chords, cranked out fast and loud and distorted because your instruments are crap and you can’t play them worth a damn. And you scream your lungs out to cover up the fact that you can’t sing. It should suck, but here’s the thing – it doesn’t. Rock and roll can be so full of itself, but not this. It’s simple and angry and raw.

– Gordon Korman –

Born to Rock

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