People Quote by Arto Lindsay

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to…

— Arto Lindsay

You could say Iggy and the Stooges were garage. You could say the Kinks helped start heavy metal with that guitar sound Dave Davies…

— Marky Ramone

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked…

— Dean Wareham

The Attitude Era had the crazy rock & roll girls and stuff.

— Tyrus

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

— Gary Oldman

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

— Roger Glover

I just remember being in love with 'Busted' and pop punk and all the pop that my sisters were listening to and that sort…

— Declan McKenna

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

— Tom Morello

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

— Ezra Furman

For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains…

— Mike D

1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

— Ian MacKaye

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

— Joey Ramone