“Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.” WayTryingDifferentAgeInterestingAttitudeGroupsPeriodsGenreDifferent WaysPunkCousinTime Periods Author:Jack White
“I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.” PeriodsDiedWowPunkBowsGood FriendMy Best FriendGuitaristMatthewReally Good FriendsBow Wow Author:Boy George
“Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in fashion. Perhaps it's because there's not much going on. No punk, no reaction to something. I think we are in a waiting period.” ThinkingTodayWaitingFashionPeriodsFameReactionsPunkCrave Author:Louise Wilson
“It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.” ImportantAbleSpiritPeriodsBandModelsPunk Author:Stephen Mallinder
“I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.” WayTryingYearsTwoFormWatchesGraceMonthsPeriodsSceneLosingMy FriendsWindowMachinesSellsEightLabelsFasterParisTwo YearsMechanismPunkPrimitiveSixtyRefinedClumsySeattleRunway Author:William Gibson