Ambition Quote by Brandon Flowers

The late '90s were a really bad time for people trying to be rock stars, you know what I mean? It seemed like everyone…

— Ben Gibbard

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions,…

— Izzy Stradlin

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

— Brian Setzer

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off,…

— Kim Gordon

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band…

— Alan Greenspan

We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were fine with…

— Gwen Stefani

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

— Kyle Gass

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

— Daniel Johns

I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a…

— James Mercer

The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album…

— Johnny Ramone

Since I remember still very clearly what it was like not being popular or in a successful band, I know that things go up…

— Tobias Forge

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it…

— Michael Azerrad