Jam Quote by Chris Cornell

I liked Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Melvins. I didn't really care much for Pearl Jam.

— Max Cavalera

I don't really like Nirvana that much. Sorry, promotional people, Universal. I'm more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre.

— Frances Bean Cobain

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still…

— Kristin Hersh

Not a lot of hard rock bands are just letting it all be - they're adding a lot of samples on things, or effects…

— Johnny Christ

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

— Chuck Eddy

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

— Gary Cherone

I love Nirvana, Joy Division, and New Order - older alternative, I guess.

— Finn Wolfhard

Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a U2, you're…

— Richard Patrick

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

— Karen O

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

— Genesis P-Orridge

Coming from heavy music too, it's really hard to have heavy music not sound too butthead-ish or jock-ish, and there's a fine line between…

— Aaron Bruno

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

— Brendon Urie