Political correctness Quote by Legs McNeil

“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

Fascism is very much a mob movement.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

— Alex Cox

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass…

— Eric Hoffer

“Punk rock is very, very much like Catholicism. It gets you when you’re young, you probably hate it at some point, but it never…

— Frank Turner

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

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that…

— Vivienne Westwood

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

— Donald Fagen

“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

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and…

— Chrissie Hynde

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

Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that…

— Geoff Rickly