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I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

— John K. Samson

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was…

— Alison Moyet

Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every…

— Legs McNeil

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you…

— Kim Gordon

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three…

— Jarvis Cocker

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

— Mike Watt

Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a…

— David Byrne

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 is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

— Mike Watt

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

— Ian Brown

I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.

— John K. Samson

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just…

— Chris McCaughan