Band Quote by Jane Wiedlin

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.

— Gina Schock

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

— Belinda Carlisle

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

— Charlotte Caffey

There should be a lot of bands like the Go-Go's out there, but there aren't.

— Belinda Carlisle

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

— Charlotte Caffey

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

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well,…

— Beth Ditto

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you…

— Kim Gordon

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record…

— Chad Gilbert

When you start a band like we did - we started with pretty pop-punk roots - the whole plan is to get out of…

— Luke Hemmings

If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say.

— Jane Wiedlin

A punk group is perfect because literally the lead singer doesn't play anything - he just sings and screams and jumps around; his body…

— James Paxton