Acid Quote by Lester Bangs

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one…

— Trevor Horn

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of…

— Alice Cooper

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in…

— Lou Reed

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were…

— Brian Setzer

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

— Anonymous

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.

— Rostam Batmanglij

There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very…

— Tod Machover

In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and…

— Paul Stookey

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

— Walter Becker

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't…

— Terry Gross

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It…

— Billy Corgan

In 1965, my father was just twirling the dial of the radio to find something that would make me go to sleep, and as…

— Jello Biafra