Any Quote by Michael Giles

We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all…

— Dennis DeYoung

We just thought that bands from the U.S. in general were just really boring, and they didn't represent what we felt pop music should…

— Ron Mael

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk.…

— Joey Ramone

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

— Mike McCready

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

— David Byrne

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

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

— Lars Ulrich

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play…

— Daniel Johns

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like…

— Eric Carmen

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

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock…

— Stephen Mallinder

We were fans of Green Day and Nirvana or whatever, but the bands we really loved were Chicago bands that didn't really sound anything…

— Matt Skiba