Art Quote by Ellen Willis

[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois'…

— Allan Bloom

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy…

— Jon Pareles

“Rock, for all the power of its individual dreams, is still confined by its mass cultural form. Its history, like the history of America…

— Simon Frith

Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But…

— Martin Scorsese

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

— Dusty Hill

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'…

— David Johansen

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

— Billy Corgan

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

— Izzy Stradlin

Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its…

— Eve Ensler

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its…

— Ezra Furman

“To be sure, rock n' roll is usually a flagrant commercialization of rhythm & blues, but the music in many cases depends on materials…

— Imamu Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones

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