New Quote by Chris Rea

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of…

— Carly Simon

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

— Kyle Gass

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

Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and it's not…

— Henry Mancini

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but…

— Brandon Flowers

If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is…

— John Kinsella

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

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

— Don McLean

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

— Butch Trucks

It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again,…

— Scotty Moore

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

— Wendell Berry