Band Quote by Martin Popoff

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

— George Thorogood

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

— Eddie Vedder

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the…

— Greg Ginn

Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody…

— Frank Zappa

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

— Jello Biafra

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

— Angus Young

At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as…

— Lester Bangs

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the…

— Justin Sane

People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called…

— Ian MacKaye

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

— Lester Bangs

I describe my band as a punk band.

— Matty Healy

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

— Tim Heidecker