Glam rock Quote by Cherie Currie

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

— David First

I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound.…

— Debbie Harry

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

— Jello Biafra

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the…

— Greg Ginn

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

— Mike Watt

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

— Mike Watt

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

— Steve Winwood

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

— Nick Lowe

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record…

— Chad Gilbert

I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a…

— Ian MacKaye

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