Chance Quote by John Cooper Clarke

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

To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

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

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

— Anna Sui

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish…

— Penelope Spheeris

I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and…

— Jello Biafra

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small group of…

— Charlotte Caffey

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

— David First

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

— Charlotte Caffey

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But…

— Garrett Hedlund

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

— Joe Strummer

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

— Toyah Willcox