Counterculture Quote by Geoff Rickly

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the…

— Justin Sane

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with…

— Jello Biafra

I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music…

— Kathleen Hanna

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

— Malcolm Mclaren

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

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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 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

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

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it…

— Vivienne Westwood

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

I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies…

— Grant Hart