Century Quote by Eric Carmen

The Raspberries was formed as kind of a reaction to prog rock, which we didn't like. 'Let's bring some songwriting and harmonies back to…

— 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

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to…

— Roger Daltrey

“I’m beginning at least to notice when I’m consuming the United Nations of edible plants and animals all in one seating. (Or the WTO,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band…

— Wayne Kramer

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their…

— Bob Iger

“She picked a raspberry, stared at it a moment, and then popped it into her mouth. For an instant, it felt smooth and tasteless,…

— Sarah Beth Durst

I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we…

— Arto Lindsay

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

Behind a great success, there was a great failure

— Michael Hermanto

Look at The Beatles: how they struggled, how they worked in order to become such a good little band. And that's why they had…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

— Robert Orben