Assuming Quote by Chuck Klosterman

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was…

— Alison Moyet

Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a…

— David Byrne

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well,…

— Beth Ditto

It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy, and Nikki…

— Duff McKagan

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

— John K. Samson

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

— David Pajo

Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more than Lynyrd…

— John Rzeznik

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

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

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you…

— Kim Gordon

Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't…

— Jeff Ament

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