80s Quote by Pedro Winter

By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark…

— Michael Stipe

I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really…

— Bucky Pope

If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.

— Yung Lean

I think I take my style from all walks of life, and all generations and decades of life as well. I love mixing '50s…

— Kelly Osbourne

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk…

— Jessica Pare

In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out to be…

— Jello Biafra

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

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

I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to -…

— John Cooper Clarke

I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us.…

— Quentin S. Crisp

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early…

— Fred Armisen

I swear I wasn't suppose to be born into this generation , I wish I was a early 80s.

— Anonymous