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I don't think the Ramones knew they were inventing punk. They were trying to be rockabilly.

— Gavin McInnes

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

— Stanley Crouch

My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.

— Hunx

“Punk has been portrayed as music by and for angry white males, but in its inception, it was a rebellion against all rock cliches.…

— Alice Bag

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

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

— Gary Oldman

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

— Toyah Willcox

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

— Mike Watt

“Everyone thought in the early days of punk, certainly once English punk got going, and even American punk, everyone thought it was a horrible…

— Legs McNeil

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

— Malcolm Mclaren

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

Punk hadn't even begun when The Runaways started, at least not in the US. We had our own sound, straight up glam rock.

— Cherie Currie