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

— Mike Watt

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

— Nick Lowe

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

When things socially and politically get difficult, punk music suddenly comes back again, and there's just a really healthy pivot away from music that's…

— Mura Masa

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

— Joey Ramone

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

— David Byrne

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn't fit in…

— Lemmy

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

— Greg Graffin

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

— Steve Winwood

“Punk has been portrayed as music by and for angry white males, but in its inception, it was a rebellion against all rock cliches.…

— Alice Bag

When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring - like 1976 when punk hadn't happened. We wanted to be rock 'n' roll.…

— Shaun Ryder

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

— Genesis P-Orridge