“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 a garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!”
Billie Joe Armstrong
“I don't play 100% punk rock music,”
Billy Idol
“Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.”
Bruce Dickinson
“You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts.”
Kurt Cobain
“I think rock music is getting better. The best (selling) music has been hip-hop for quite a while. So those guys are making the money and making the videos.”
Brandon Flowers
“I just want to acknowledge that pop radio playing rock music is a very big deal to me, so thank you very much.”
“It's great to know that rock music still has a place on MTV,”