Age Quote by Michael Stipe

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

— Greg Ginn

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

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You…

— Alan Rickman

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk…

— Dave Grohl

“I've assembled a pretty good collection of mid-'70s New York punk classics on tape: Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Heartbreakers, Ramones, Television…

— Anthony Bourdain

I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four crazy-looking girls…

— Kate Nash

I came out of the punk era in the late Seventies. There were the Stray Cats, Matchbox and myself. I was able to hang…

— Shakin' Stevens

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.

— Fred Armisen

I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.

— Ezra Furman

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

— Jessica Hagedorn

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

— Anonymous

I heard the Velvet Underground and that changed things when I was like, 15.

— Ezra Furman