Back Quote by Eric Carmen

When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads. They thought…

— Eric Carmen

The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.

— Eric Carmen

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry.…

— Steven Van Zandt

It wasn't until after Raspberries, Big Star and Badfinger came to exist that powerpop became a genre. In each case, I suspect Pete Ham,…

— Eric Carmen

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

The Raspberries had recorded some ballads on every one of our albums, but after 'Go All The Way' was successful Capital pretty much wanted…

— Eric Carmen

We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were fine with…

— Gwen Stefani

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it…

— Jerry Leiber

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

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

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Kyle Gass

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

— David Bowie