# Punk — Please Quote Me

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> Mr. Pop is passionate. It's pretty obvious he's kind of a wild guy, but he has standards; he has a controlled madness, and this is what it's really all about.

— Debbie Harry, on Iggy Pop (Rolling Stone (interview by Elisabeth Garber-Paul), 2020)
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> Sid's quite awkward and talks in spurts like he thinks it's stupid to have a point of view, but he's got to communicate, so he forces the words out.

— Viv Albertine, on Sid Vicious (Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys (Viv Albertine), 2014)
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> All the things I'm so embarrassed about, John's made into virtues. He's unapologetic about who he is and where he comes from.

— Viv Albertine, on John Lydon (Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys (Viv Albertine), 2014)
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> I really learned it was over the day we sacked Topper, and not the day we sacked Mick.

— Joe Strummer, on Topper Headon, Mick Jones (Los Angeles Times (interview by Richard Cromelin), 1988)
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> I was trying to prove that I was the Clash and it wasn't [Mick (Jones)].

— Joe Strummer, on Mick Jones (Los Angeles Times (interview by Richard Cromelin), 1988)
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> The Clash are authentic because their music carries such brutal conviction, not because they're Noble Savages.

— Lester Bangs, on The Clash (New Musical Express (NME), 1977)
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> I don't know Johnny Rotten, but I'm sure, I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did.

— Iggy Pop, on John Lydon (CBC, 90 Minutes Live (interview by Peter Gzowski), 1977)
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