Find Quote by Kate Nash

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

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

— Edwyn Collins

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

— Toyah Willcox

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

— John Grant

I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.

— Jim Carroll

I was just very reserved. The band's helped me have a voice.

— Calum Hood

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

— Billy Idol

I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't any different…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

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

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

— Laura Jane Grace

The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."

— Michael Stipe

I admired punk because I came from a violent band as well. Especially in the first four or five years, we were very aggressive…

— Bill Ward