Back Quote by Pepa

My Nirvana experience was much different than the other three guys. For me, it was really new and exciting. I was just a guy…

— Pat Smear

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for…

— Bono

I was always a punk rock skate kid from a very young age.

— Matt Skiba

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

— John Cooper Clarke

If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people…

— Tobi Vail

Youre a supermarket punk rock television comedy.

— Goo Goo Dolls

My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very…

— Matt Skiba

My perfect day would start with a kiss from my daughter. I would drive her to school listening to our favourite punk rock music…

— Bianca Balti

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked…

— Colin Meloy

As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock.…

— Mark McNairy

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting…

— Moby

“If the early English and LA punk bands shared a common sound, the New York bands just shared the same clubs. As such, while…

— Clinton Heylin

Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk…

— Thurston Moore

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

— Travis Barker

'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls,…

— Iggy Pop