Exposed Quote by George Thorogood

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

— Eddie Vedder

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

— Anton Yelchin

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

— Martin Popoff

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's…

— Milo Aukerman

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

— Cat Power

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

At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as…

— Lester Bangs

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

— John K. Samson

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 rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

— Lester Bangs