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• I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There’s a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

  Mark Hoppus

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• Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they’ve got worse.

  Tom Hodgkinson

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• Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it’d be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

  James Surowiecki

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• People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

  Patti Smith

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• To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom.

  Patti Smith

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• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That’s how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

  Bruce Sterling

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• By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

  Billy Bragg

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• I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren’t very political, at all.

  Billy Bragg

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• Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

  Billy Bragg

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• A punk concert isn’t fun without a pit.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• 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 rock.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That’s what I do. I’m like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

  Avril Lavigne

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• I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn’t matter if you can’t play a note, it’s how you communicate.

  Siobhan Fahey

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• Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

  Shirley Manson

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• There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

  Robert Sheckley

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