About Quote by Nate Ruess

In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it, OK? And…

— Charlie Benante

I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was…

— Stephen Malkmus

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

— Henry Flynt

We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making…

— Nate Ruess

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from…

— Daniel Ek

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

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

I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a lot of…

— Girl Talk

Rock music as a whole was terrible in the early 2000s.

— Antoni Porowski

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

— Billy Corgan

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked…

— Dean Wareham

The first shows we played were after metal bands and everyone hated us.

— Calum Hood