Glorious Quote by David Vanian

I really liked the Sex Pistols when they came out and I thought they had a lot of melody.

— Kim Shattuck

The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.

— Rick Nielsen

Rock n' roll is over, don't you get it? It lasted 25 years and now gets wiped out. The Sex Pistols were the bullet…

— John Lydon

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

— Jim Jarmusch

The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk…

— Steve Winwood

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

It seems like the powers that be are really trying to separate everything and really divide the genres and divide the trends. If you're…

— Cristian Machado

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

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols

— David Byrne

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

— Steve Winwood

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

— Malcolm Mclaren

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as…

— Kurt Cobain