Beauty Quote by Billie Joe Armstrong

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's…

— Milo Aukerman

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

— George Thorogood

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

— Tre Cool

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the…

— Justin Sane

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like…

— Iggy Pop

To me, punk rock isn't a style of music, it's something you live.

— Shavo Odadjian

There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When…

— El-P

Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too…

— James Murphy