Punk Rock Defined

"Punk is music, good music, played by bad musicians who are either drunk or on drugs."
-Fat Mike

"Punk is the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions."
- Greg Graffin

"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."
- Kurt Cobain

"A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'"
- Billie Joe Armstrong

"Punk is right wing!"
- Johnny Ramone

"All these kids that looked like freaks inventing their own lifestyle, that was punk rock."
- Steve Albini

"Punk rock isn't dead, it just deserves to die."
- Jello Biafra