The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason…

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

— George Thorogood

I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!'

— Mike McCready

I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on…

— Craig Finn

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons…

— Chuck D

I've found over the years that for some reason, people either are big fans and have to use me, or they don't quite understand…

— Fred Willard

We haven't been calling it beauty sleep for the past hundreds of years for no reason.

— Esther Povitsky

“I’d learned over the years that there’s always a reason why people force a good time.”

— Ernie Wood

One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to…

— Rex Stout

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time.…

— George Thorogood

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people…

— George Thorogood

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

— Laura Bell Bundy

When people are saying "rock is dead," it's making everything worse. I would like reword and say "rock is underground." We're really being alienated…

— Rick DeJesus

I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.

— Davey Havok

Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.

— Neil Gaiman

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

— Brian Chippendale