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Michael Azerrad has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.
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To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY,…
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In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent,…
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The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics,…
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As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the…
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I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.
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I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the…
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Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.
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There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really…
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There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.
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A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone…
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Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for…
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There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.
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In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.
— Lin Brehmer
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There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music…
— Miranda Lambert
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To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the…
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Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down…
— Brian Setzer
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It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ...
— Jerry Garcia
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Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that…
— Eddie Van Halen
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... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing…
— Brian Setzer
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The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see…
— Bruce Springsteen
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
— Billy Joel
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Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.
— Jon Bon Jovi
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The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of…
— Joni Mitchell
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