Accurate Quote by James Surowiecki

The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk…

— Steve Winwood

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

— Steve Winwood

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

— David Byrne

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

Punk is like not about the style, its about the music!

— Avril Lavigne

When things socially and politically get difficult, punk music suddenly comes back again, and there's just a really healthy pivot away from music that's…

— Mura Masa

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

— Jello Biafra

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and…

— Craig Ferguson

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

— Mike Watt

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals.…

— Tom Hodgkinson

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