American Quote by Gavin McInnes

After being a born-again punk rocker for about ten years, the whole thing started falling apart. American hardcore had become Californians in baggy shorts…

— Gavin McInnes

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 didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to…

— Anonymous

“An essential difference between British and American punk bands can be found in their respective views of rock & roll history. The British bands…

— Clinton Heylin

I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a…

— Ian MacKaye

I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn't the same…

— Greg Graffin

We grew up listening to so much hardcore: everything from the very early D.C. stuff - Teen Idols, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, SOA, Government…

— Davey Havok

When that punk strain came to Britain and infected everyone. It was more than just a sound. There was an ethos, an ethic that…

— Jim Kerr

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

— Will Oldham

I admired punk because I came from a violent band as well. Especially in the first four or five years, we were very aggressive…

— Bill Ward

American artists, Americans in general, don't take the U.K. rap scene too seriously, yeah, but thing is though, they wasn't taking Canadian artists that…

— AJ Tracey

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

— Anonymous