Always Quote by Rick Wakeman

I hated everything but punk for a long time.

— Harry Enfield

I admired punk because I came from a violent band as well. Especially in the first four or five years, we were very aggressive…

— Bill Ward

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music…

— Daughn Gibson

The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.

— Martin Popoff

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

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was…

— Alison Moyet

I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I…

— Neneh Cherry

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

— Laura Jane Grace

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said,…

— Neil Young

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've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music…

— Kathleen Hanna

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