Generation Quote by Dick Clark

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

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

— Ruben Blades

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

— Henry Flynt

People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop culture from…

— Myles Kennedy

Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music.

— Tom Petty

Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did.…

— Andrew Loog Oldham

Rock music as a whole was terrible in the early 2000s.

— Antoni Porowski

Well, rock used to be the only game in town in terms of radio and what the kids listen to. Now I think there…

— Kyle Gass

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them…

— Allan Bloom

“But the rise of rock 'n' roll was nonetheless one of the most shocking cultural phenomena of the mid- and late 1950s, especially to…

— James T. Patterson

Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in causes like…

— Keith Allen

When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear…

— John Lennon