Emphasis Quote by Will Oldham

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

— John K. Samson

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

When things socially and politically get difficult, punk music suddenly comes back again, and there's just a really healthy pivot away from music that's…

— Mura Masa

To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

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

— David First

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

— Bill Bruford

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

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

— Anton Yelchin

From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to…

— Jello Biafra

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you…

— Kim Gordon

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

— Steve Winwood

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

— Dave Grohl