Always Quote by John Petrucci

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

— John Petrucci

We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences…

— John Petrucci

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a…

— John Petrucci

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

— Mike Portnoy

I think that metal has always been, in my opinion, the most passionate form of music, and it only makes sense to actually be…

— Alissa White-Gluz

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

— David Pajo

The thing is that honestly we haven't had an audience. And we have a chance to have an audience now. Which is great because…

— Jonathan Meiburg

From the beginning we never fit in anywhere. We played shows with death metal, reggae, hip-hop artists and even feminist poets. We found a…

— Gym Class Heroes

I will champion this forever - that the rock and metal scene is absolutely the most inclusive, amazing, supportive community that I've ever been…

— Nita Strauss

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

— M. Shadows

At least here in Stockholm if you go out to any of our 4 metal clubs and talk to ten guys you can be…

— Johan Hegg

We've toured with so many bands, and we've noticed that there are a few of them... Metallica, Rammstein, Tool - those aren't bands, those…

— Ivan Moody