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Punk hadn't even begun when The Runaways started, at least not in the US. We had our own sound, straight up glam rock.

— Cherie Currie

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

Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk…

— Thurston Moore

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Nick Lowe

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

— Mike Watt

A lot of people [in the U.S.] used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was an intangible…

— Steve Diggle

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

— Eddie Vedder

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 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 is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

— Michelle Shocked

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