People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
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.
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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.
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.