Friendship Quote by Ian MacKaye

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become…

— Robert Smith

Artists have kids, mortgages, or drug habits, and they got to do what they got to do. But reforming and the reunion stuff isn't…

— Mark Kozelek

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people…

— Travis Morrison

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

— Five for Fighting

The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive. A lot…

— Dutch Robinson

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

— Jonathan Davis

Right now, I've never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but we're all…

— Chris Robinson

These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio…

— Vivian Campbell

I'd say that 98 percent of the bands we've played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in some kind…

— David Bryan

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again…

— George Harrison

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And…

— Michael Azerrad