Band Quote by Phil Ehart

We kinda were a radio-rock band. We were still pretty technical, but I think the prog people hated us because we didn't do a…

— Synyster Gates

Progressive rock was happening.

— Tony Orlando

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've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences…

— John Petrucci

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

— Mike Portnoy

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

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

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

— Britt Daniel

When we came out, the kind of music that was popular was Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, all that stuff. That was when…

— John Petrucci

We really clicked with the label and they understood what we wanted to do as a band. They gave us a lot of freedom…

— Ryan Ross

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record…

— Chad Gilbert

This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was…

— Lee Ranaldo