80s Quote by Bucky Pope

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

— Joe Elliott

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten…

— Chris Cornell

I think you can realise that a lot of people in bands - well - I guess you kinda wanna... There's a lot less…

— Chris Baio

We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all…

— Dennis DeYoung

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

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

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.

— Matt Bellamy

Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but…

— Stephen Malkmus

There were bands back in the '90s when I started building a rock CD collection or whatever, I would get their CD and I…

— Lacey Sturm

I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In…

— Pete Wentz

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

— Ted Dwane

Perhaps the bands emerging nowadays don't have the right context around them to help them grow. We were born at the right moment where…

— Joselo Rangel