Johnny rotten Quote by Brian Johnson

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk…

— Kathleen Hanna

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about…

— Malcolm Mclaren

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

— John Lydon

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

If you hadn't seen what we looked like, you would have thought we were a punk band. I remember going down to the [London…

— Motorhead

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

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

— Malcolm Mclaren

Punk was a very liberating force.

— Jim Kerr

He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never…

— Janet Fitch

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it…

— Vivienne Westwood

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

— Julie Burchill

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

— Anonymous