Awful Quote by James Mercer

I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.

— Matt Bellamy

I think its a natural progression for bands to evolve. People say were an amalgamation of all these genres but back in the day…

— Gym Class Heroes

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band…

— Bucky Pope

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

I must say it was not very inspiring to see that tons of new bands emerged from nowhere and started to play the exact…

— Varg Vikernes

Had I lived in Norman and those bands hadn't existed, who knows where I'd be, I might be doing something awful; I might be…

— Josh Jones

I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

— Greg Saunier

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions,…

— Izzy Stradlin

Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We…

— Sheila E

Perhaps the bands emerging nowadays don't have the right context around them to help them grow. We were born at the right moment where…

— Joselo Rangel

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

— David Byrne

I started to listen to music in '80 or '81, bands like Queen or Kiss. Then in '83, when I first got into Slayer…

— Max Cavalera