Punk rock Quote by Frank Turner

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for…

— Tom DeLonge

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

— Joe Strummer

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

— Dexter Holland

“This new, reactionary music was called Punk. It tossed the dominant Rock culture into the garbage can. The only rule was to break the…

— Steven Blush

'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls,…

— Iggy Pop

Punk can be a mental ghetto. People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians…

— Jesse Michaels

Punk music is rebellious.

— Theophilus London

“Punk is an attitude. Hardcore is a lifestyle. the first seeks to subvert society. The second aims to live outside of it.”

— Everett True

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

— Henry Rollins

I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

— Shepard Fairey