Band Quote by Anthony Fantano

I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

— Kim Shattuck

“I was ten when I heard the music that ended the first phase of my life and cast me hurtling towards a new horizon.…

— Mark Rice

Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been…

— Illinois Jacquet

“They start setting up on a little left stage playing my secret favorite song: the rustling of sheet music and set lists, the coughing…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Within the space of a few shows you can hear the band morph between their various identities as savvy arena rockers, intense starship pilots,…

— Richard Gehr

Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being…

— Martin Popoff

Obviously, the big hits like 'Shout,' 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World,' 'Head Over Heels,' we play live, so there's nothing new about them…

— Roland Orzabal

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It…

— Billy Corgan

“The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London…

— Ransom Riggs

'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.

— Chris Cornell

In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur big bands,…

— Al Jourgensen

Every album is unto itself, so whatever sounds we need to come up with, like way back when, we needed horns. So we invented…

— Dusty Hill