Attractive Quote by Mary Harron

Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too…

— James Murphy

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small group of…

— Charlotte Caffey

The underground scene is still a cool way to meet a lot of cool people, see a lot of interesting bands and get a…

— Jello Biafra

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

— Ian MacKaye

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

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

— Nick Lowe

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

— Michelle Visage

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark…

— Michael Stipe

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

When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty…

— Doug Martsch