About Quote by Toyah Willcox

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

— Jello Biafra

I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

— Viv Albertine

People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.

— Kurt Vile

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

— Anonymous

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

— David Byrne

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

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

— Mike Watt

I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran…

— Patti Smith

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

— Joe Strummer

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with…

— Jello Biafra

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

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

— Joel Madden