Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.
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 rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.
Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.
I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.
When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
'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.