Current Quote by Phil Collins

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

— Phil Collins

“in the heavy rock scene there were never any girls – it was a girl-free zone – and that’s never a good sign.”

— Johnny Marr

I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was…

— Michael Stipe

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of…

— Robert Wyatt

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

— Jonathan Davis

We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing in Guapo.

— Daniel O'Sullivan

For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up on categories,…

— Gavin Esler

It's perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn't than what it is: it's not three-minute pop songs, it's not straightforward rock, metal, blues…

— Gavin Esler

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

— Eric Carmen

Is punk rock really music, or is it really just an attitude? I get into that discussion with people all of the time. I…

— Tim Commerford

(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

— Stephen Colbert

I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I…

— Arjen Anthony Lucassen