Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what…

“Living is the opposite of poetry. Poetry is the recollection of living, or, more often than not, the lament of having not lived. Or…

— P.S. Baber

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

— Ralph Ellison

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight…

— Tina Weymouth

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and…

— Tom DeLonge

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

— Joe Elliott

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and…

— Tom DeLonge

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.

— T.F. Hodge

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

— Michael Tippett

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

— Gore Vidal

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be…

— Susan Sontag

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond…a good feeling about his art.

— Robert Pinsky

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to…

— Campbell McGrath

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

— Helen Keller

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

— David Starkey