Life Quote by Marcus Gray

I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and…

— Jello Biafra

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy…

— Jon Pareles

“Rock is a commercially made mass music and this must be the starting point for its celebration as well as for its dismissal.”

— Simon Frith

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction…

— Stephen Mallinder

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's…

— Robert Wyatt

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

— David Bowie

The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!

— Nancy Wilson

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

— Don DeLillo

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to…

— Anonymous

Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its…

— Eve Ensler

I think that it was really rock-and-roll stars, women who were breaking boundaries with their bodies and their voices and their beings and their…

— Eve Ensler

That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of…

— Debbie Harry