Band Quote by Lance Loud

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to…

— Anonymous

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on…

— Travis Barker

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

— Eddie Vedder

I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's…

— Milo Aukerman

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

— Gustav Ejstes

In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur big bands,…

— Al Jourgensen

I love the spirit of early pop punk and we incorporated that into our earlier albums.

— Luke Hemmings

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

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

— Anonymous

I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a…

— Ian MacKaye

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked…

— Dean Wareham

I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound.…

— Debbie Harry