Chemistry Quote by Siouxsie Sioux

I feel that people who are new to punk/hardcore don't truly understand the music and the role it plays in people's lives until they…

— Jacob Bannon

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well,…

— Beth Ditto

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every…

— Legs McNeil

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

— Jello Biafra

A lot of people [in the U.S.] used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was an intangible…

— Steve Diggle

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 IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and…

— Greg Graffin

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there…

— Greg Graffin

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

Punk rock was the first thing I found in my life that made me feel acceptable. The thing that got me into punk rock…

— John Porcellino