Alternative music Quote by Al Yankovic

I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.

— John Oates

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap…

— Todd Rundgren

Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.

— Nancy Wilson

There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of…

— George Jones

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

— George Michael

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

— Joe Goddard

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

— James Mercer

My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try…

— Al Yankovic

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

— Al Yankovic

I didn't feel particularly cool when I was 16 or 17 but I felt accepted in a community of alternative music and the gig scene.

— Matty Healy

The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing…

— Lana Del Rey

In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing…

— Shirley Manson