Audience Quote by Lydia Loveless

The music I'm playing now is the music I always imagined myself playing when I was a kid. It's been nice to use my…

— Marika Hackman

As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

— David Pajo

In terms of stage presence for me, I'm influenced by a myriad of things. A lot of punk performers, people like Dave Vanian from…

— Andy Biersack

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have…

— Yann Tiersen

I am far from an "old" person in human terms, however I've spent over half my life immersed in the punk rock and hardcore…

— Jacob Bannon

There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real…

— Glenn Branca

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

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

— Jonny Lang

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock…

— Georgia May Jagger

Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more than Lynyrd…

— John Rzeznik

Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just…

— Dion DiMucci