Band Quote by Rob Sheffield

“An essential difference between British and American punk bands can be found in their respective views of rock & roll history. The British bands…

— Clinton Heylin

Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!

— John Dillinger

I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a…

— Ian MacKaye

“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

I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn't the same…

— Greg Graffin

I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when…

— John Hiatt

I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to…

— Jeff Ament

“Nico looked very tall and thin wearing a opaque black sweatshirt hoodie and dark inked skinny jeans. His outer physical structure was handsome and…

— Keira D. Skye

“Another fact involves Iron Maiden’s self title album which introduced the new image of Maiden’s old mascot Eddie the ’ed to the new decade…

— Javier Medina

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she…

— Kreayshawn

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands…

— Oscar Isaac

You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So…

— Michael Stipe