Always Quote by Gina Schock

A lot of people don't know that the Go-Go's came from the L.A. punk scene.

— Belinda Carlisle

The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band…

— Jane Wiedlin

The Go-Go's were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.

— Charlotte Caffey

What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.

— Charlotte Caffey

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

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

— Mike Watt

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

— Mike Watt

The musical differences are obvious: the Go-Go's are more punk, while my solo work is more soft pop. But they're equally as fun and…

— Belinda Carlisle

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

— Jello Biafra

Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every…

— Legs McNeil

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

— Gustav Ejstes

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

— Patrick Stump