Art Quote by Jon Pareles

On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and…

— Casey Spooner

Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation,…

— Greil Marcus

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen,…

— Ellen Willis

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

— Pete Townshend

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

— Don DeLillo

“Rock, for all the power of its individual dreams, is still confined by its mass cultural form. Its history, like the history of America…

— Simon Frith

For me, the association with rock is one of force and anger and aggression. And definitely, in the past, I've made songs that attack…

— Boots Riley

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

— Tip O'Neill

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

— Billy Corgan

Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It…

— David Bowie

It's not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.

— Lzzy Hale