Afraid Quote by Brian Setzer

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock…

— Stephen Mallinder

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like…

— Eric Carmen

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish…

— Nick Rhodes

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from…

— Kevin Ayers

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you…

— Karen Carpenter

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man.…

— Bobby Keys

Our music was, like, Doors-y, but trying to be classical. We all took music classes and tried writing songs, and when we put them…

— Fab Moretti

We were wild-eyed hippies from the late '60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding '60s - that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph,…

— Nancy Wilson

Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying…

— Steve Lukather

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you…

— Karen Carpenter

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't…

— Terry Gross