Boring Quote by Shaun Ryder

We were the first generation of rock & roll, but life goes on.

— Ian Gillan

The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk…

— Steve Winwood

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

— Ezra Furman

We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all…

— Dennis DeYoung

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked…

— Dean Wareham

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you…

— Karen Carpenter

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

— Nick Lowe

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you…

— Karen Carpenter

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

— David First

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,…

— Stephen Mallinder