I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get…

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

— Billy Corgan

Grunge, like Nirvana and all that. Heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns and Roses, drum and bass. I like to listen to it and…

— Dizzee Rascal

When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with…

— Ringo Starr

My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I'd never gotten into punk. I don't really like that music of Crass,…

— Phil Elverum

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

— Mike D

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.

— Polly Allen Mellen

I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that Kurt and…

— Butch Vig

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

— David Cook

I think we should wear any look we want to! The grunge style early 1990s is one of my favorites.

— Chloe Ting

I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness…

— Tove Lo

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

— Adam Jones

The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in.

— Frances Bean Cobain

I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know.…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones