I think Quote by Paul Rodgers

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

— George Thorogood

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

— Eddie Vedder

At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as…

— Lester Bangs

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

I feel like people are starting to come around and embrace rock. Because I guess they're getting sick of the stale sounds of certain…

— Jason Reece

People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.

— Kurt Vile

I feel that people who are new to punk/hardcore don't truly understand the music and the role it plays in people's lives until they…

— Jacob Bannon

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion…

— Jello Biafra

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

— Edwyn Collins