Community Quote by Babatunde Adebimpe

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and…

— Chrissie Hynde

In the beginning, the punk scene was so full of promise. All the bands were different, and all the sounds were different. The common…

— David Vanian

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again…

— Billy Bragg

Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person…

— Greil Marcus

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and…

— Laura Jane Grace

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There…

— Boy George

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

— Ian Brown

I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by…

— Boy George

I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural signifiers of…

— Ezra Furman

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music…

— Daughn Gibson

Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in causes like…

— Keith Allen

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.

— Fred Armisen