Absolutely Quote by John Hurt

Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person…

— Greil Marcus

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

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

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

— Billie Joe Armstrong

The whole 'anniversary of punk' thing really compounded what I thought was wrong. I was so disillusioned. I remember thinking, 'I don't want anything…

— Siouxsie Sioux

“Everyone thought in the early days of punk, certainly once English punk got going, and even American punk, everyone thought it was a horrible…

— Legs McNeil

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

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

— Madonna Ciccone

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

— John Lydon

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with…

— Jello Biafra

My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.

— Hunx

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

— Mike Watt