Advent Quote by Colin Meloy

The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk…

— Steve Winwood

I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments…

— Nancy Wilson

It's perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn't than what it is: it's not three-minute pop songs, it's not straightforward rock, metal, blues…

— Gavin Esler

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and…

— William Shatner

I just believed in 1979 that prog rock was finished. I just saw the handwriting on the wall. And I believed that if we…

— Dennis DeYoung

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you…

— Kim Gordon

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the…

— Dinah Shore

I'm fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don't ever hear them talk about…

— Travis Morrison

When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was…

— Patti Smith

There's no doubt that prog rock has an image problem: many musicians hate the label, and too many people associate it with 10-minute drum…

— Gavin Esler

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the…

— Greg Ginn

Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new…

— Ian Anderson