Big deal Quote by Matthew Lillard

Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every…

— Legs McNeil

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there,…

— Mark Hoppus

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music…

— Daughn Gibson

I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural signifiers of…

— Ezra Furman

Punk can be a mental ghetto. People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians…

— Jesse Michaels

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

— Steve Winwood

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about…

— Malcolm Mclaren

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

— Joey Ramone

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

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

— Genesis P-Orridge

One thing that really attracted me to punk was the DIY aspect. And the fact that, since I was a nerd, I was like…

— Milo Aukerman

Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear. We could do great…

— Boy George