Siouxsie Sioux Quotes

There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

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 what punk is about.

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

The whole 'anniversary of punk' thing really compounded what I thought was wrong. I was so disillusioned. I remember thinking, 'I don't want anything to do with this.'

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.

I love punks!

When punk started, it wasn't subtle.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing.

Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have expected to hear in public were being heard all over the place.

Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear. We could do great things with our hair. We had protest badges that read "I belong to the Blank Generation." It was such a great time to be a kid.

The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."