New Wave music is not entirely rooted in Punk Rock

Contrary to a popular belief that was based on the claim of many music journalists, New Wave music is not entirely rooted in the American and English Punk Rock music that originated in the mid-'70s via bands like The Ramones and Sex Pistols. An immense number of what came to be regarded also as New Wave took their cue from the '60s Art Rock, Folk Rock, Baroque Pop, and Psychedelic Rock of bands/artists like Pink Floyd, Soft Boys, Love, David Bowie, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, and even The Beatles--at least in a musical perspective.

To think that the thousands of bands whose music has become classifiable as New Wave originated from only the small contingent of '70s Punk Rock bands apparently triggered by The Ramones in New York, USA, and Sex Pistols in London, England, in the early to mid-'70s is a ridiculously narrowminded perspective. 

Examples of bands whose respective music has also been considered part of the genre New Wave that are more musically related to the finesse of '60s Art Rock and Baroque Pop than to the abrasiveness of '70s Punk Rock:

China Crisis, Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians, The Pale Fountains, The Lotus Eaters, Care, This Final Frame, Spandau Ballet, The Lightning Seeds