Despair Quote by Jeri Smith-Ready

Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music.

— Tom Petty

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

— Ruben Blades

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

— Noel Gallagher

Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of…

— Nick Cave

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents…

— Trent Reznor

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

— Juliana Hatfield

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

— Julian Cope

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do…

— Aristotle

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

— Christine Ebersole

There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away…

— Michael Stipe

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

— Flea

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

— Sting