Arguing Quote by Patti Smith

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is like not about the style, its about the music!

— Avril Lavigne

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals.…

— Tom Hodgkinson

I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

— Shepard Fairey

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

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful…

— Dexter Holland

I've always said that punk is a time and money thing. You can only be punk if you're poor and you're young. It's for…

— Sharon Needles

Punk to me is about fighting for something your passionate about.

— Adore Delano

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it…

— Hayley Williams

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

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

— JPEGMAFIA