Acts Quote by Mike Love

I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of rock music.…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

— Henry Flynt

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

— Henry Rollins

Personally speaking, I think the Beatles were our biggest influence.

— Charlotte Caffey

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

— Kyle Gass

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

— Brad Paisley

When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was…

— Patti Smith

Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.

— Anderson East

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out…

— David Allan Coe

I think the '60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles, of The…

— Angus Young

About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired…

— Geoff Tate

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band…

— Wayne Kramer