Audience Quote by John Petrucci

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world. We see it when we're on tour.

— 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

We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.

— Stjepan Hauser

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

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

— Sebastian Bach

Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it…

— Greg Lake

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

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

— M. Shadows

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

When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.

— Phil Ehart

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

— Billy Corgan