Circus Quote by John Lydon

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

— Joel Madden

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

— Nick Lowe

In the beginning, the punk scene was so full of promise. All the bands were different, and all the sounds were different. The common…

— David Vanian

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk music is rebellious.

— Theophilus London

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

— JPEGMAFIA

“This new, reactionary music was called Punk. It tossed the dominant Rock culture into the garbage can. The only rule was to break the…

— Steven Blush

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

— Jello Biafra

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

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

— Avril Lavigne

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

— Mike Watt

Punk hadn't even begun when The Runaways started, at least not in the US. We had our own sound, straight up glam rock.

— Cherie Currie