Bane Quote by Jim DeRogatis

He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's…

— Jennifer Egan

There's so much nostalgia for music from the past.

— Jens Lekman

We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep…

— Pete Townshend

Elvis Presley was rock 'n' roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has been down,…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Nostalgia has always been a key player in my songwriting cause within that space I find a great deal of inspiration.

— MO

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited…

— Armistead Maupin

I think nostalgia is kind of dangerous in music.

— Bonobo

“...normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it wasn´t) and…

— John Hodgman

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started…

— Elvis Costello

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing,…

— Robert Plant

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

— Henry Flynt