Array Quote by Ian Anderson

I just believed in 1979 that prog rock was finished. I just saw the handwriting on the wall. And I believed that if we…

— Dennis DeYoung

It was always going to be a risk to go away, reinvent the band, and come back and release this new stuff, which has…

— Calum Hood

I'm a big fan of a lot of prog music. As a record collector as well, I won't throw anybody or any band under…

— Tobias Forge

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

— Jonathan Davis

I was a huge prog rock fan as a kid in high school, and I'm so thankful for that.

— Tim Commerford

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but…

— Brandon Flowers

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

— Henry Flynt

The '80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000…

— Keren Woodward

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it…

— Michael Azerrad

The Washed Out thing happened really quickly, and I wasn't really actively promoting the songs. I didn't think of them as any more than…

— Washed Out

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in…

— Jason Pierce

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a…

— John Mellencamp