Audience Quote by Rob Sheffield

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

— David Bowie

I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They…

— Walter Becker

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

Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made a spectacular…

— Robert Hilburn

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'm still waiting for rock bands to come back, something raw and relevant.

— Greg Kurstin

You got to look the part. You have to look like all the successful rock bands look. This is what they do. That's never…

— Sonny Sandoval

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

— Kyle Gass

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It…

— Billy Corgan

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

— Eric Burdon

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

— Butch Trucks

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had…

— Nate Ruess