Era Quote by Matt Bellamy

Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We…

— Sheila E

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

— Rob Zombie

I think its a natural progression for bands to evolve. People say were an amalgamation of all these genres but back in the day…

— Gym Class Heroes

Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to…

— Avril Lavigne

I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a…

— James Mercer

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

— Martin Kemp

For me the 60s was important because I was a teenager then and the bands then were the influences.

— David Essex

Don't get me wrong, The Beatles are one of our all-time favourite bands, but there's a lot more we were influenced by.

— Ryan Ross

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

Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and…

— John Corabi

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

In the 80s there weren't so many bands around and nowadays there are a lot more bands around. I think sometimes there are too…

— Udo Dirkschneider