Conclusion Quote by Rob Chapman

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes;…

— Joe Satriani

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and…

— William Shatner

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

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

No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.

— Russell Smith

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a…

— Klaus Nomi

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

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.

— John Gourley

Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it…

— Greg Lake

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

— Sting

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

People who like progressive music tend to sneer at the idea of a kind of punk aesthetic, and people who like alternative indie rock…

— Steven Wilson