Easy Quote by Eric Carmen

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were…

— Brian Setzer

For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that came from.…

— Michael Giacchino

It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't…

— Jeff Tweedy

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock…

— Stephen Mallinder

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from…

— Kevin Ayers

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying…

— Steve Lukather

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

We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all…

— Dennis DeYoung

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

— David Bowie

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music -…

— Stephen Mallinder

We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.

— Kemp Muhl