Blues Quote by Neneh Cherry

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was…

— Alison Moyet

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you…

— Kim Gordon

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like…

— Iggy Pop

Crisis and my experience of Punk Rock in Britain/Europe was anything and everything but "fun" and this sort of idea comes from people who…

— Douglas Pearce

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

I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and…

— Jello Biafra

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made…

— Jello Biafra

From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to…

— Jello Biafra

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

— Toyah Willcox

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,…

— Stephen Mallinder

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

— Gary Oldman

Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in causes like…

— Keith Allen