I don't think the Ramones knew they were inventing punk. They were trying to be rockabilly. — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia. — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
Bow Wow Wow were one of the few punk bands who weren't afraid to embrace pop. — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
I just did what I loved - flowers and rock n' roll. Pretty and punk. I was largely inspired by my dancing… — Betsey Johnson Copy Share Image
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke". — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
My perfect day would start with a kiss from my daughter. I would drive her to school listening to our favourite punk… — Bianca Balti Copy Share Image
Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily… — Daniel Bryan Copy Share Image
For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
People who like progressive music tend to sneer at the idea of a kind of punk aesthetic, and people who like alternative… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
When you're around siblings a lot, those default kid settings come in. You could be 30, 40 years old, but you decide… — Edi Patterson Copy Share Image
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
It seems that the Internet is setting the standard for almost everything. I can't imagine having something like punk rock happen where… — Memory Tapes Copy Share Image
I look fondly back on renegade days of my youth. Not the partying or anything, but it's still the spirit that I… — Terry Richardson Copy Share Image
Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I… — Sophie Turner Copy Share Image
What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a… — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart,… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
Since we began Daft Punk we go from surprise to surprise. — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
![“The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on…” quote by Jeff Vespa](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/15e/jeff-vespa-25539_cameras_the-canon-ae1-a-fully-manual-camera-my-m_307429.jpg)
