Black Quote by Chuck Klosterman

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 is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

— Jim DeRogatis

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'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

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

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Julie Burchill

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

— Mike Watt

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

— Hayley Williams

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

— Joe Perry

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion…

— Dave Grohl