Guitar playing Quote by Greg Prato

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

— Adam Lambert

The Arabic world was very interesting in the 1920s to '60s: there was something booming culturally, and I found my culture very desirable when…

— Yasmine Hamdan

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing…

— Klaus Schulze

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

— Rostam Batmanglij

My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of…

— Princess Superstar

From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.

— Wolfman Jack

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you…

— Karen Carpenter

It was awesome growing up listening to Oasis and Paolo Nutini, but I also loved growing up listening to Ray Charles and Muddy Waters.

— Tom Walker

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

— Butch Trucks

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Kyle Gass

Growing up in the Libya of the 1970s, I remember the prevalence of local bands who were as much influenced by Arabic musical traditions…

— Hisham Matar