Best Quote by Shaun Ryder

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band…

— Wayne Kramer

We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were fine with…

— Gwen Stefani

We were so heavily influenced by The Replacements and by a lot of hard core bands like Bad Brains, not that we sounded like…

— John Rzeznik

We just knew that we wanted to be in a band. We wanted to be in a great live band and we wanted to…

— Jim Kerr

We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the public's band.

— Nicola Roberts

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

— Daniel Johns

We had to take full advantage of the fact that we wanted to be one of the most creative bands out there that's getting…

— Zacky Vengeance

We're an American band. We liked the Grammys, we liked the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We weren't a political band, and we…

— Marky Ramone

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with…

— Freddie Mercury

We wanted to create the kind of band of whom I'd be jealous if we went and saw them. We dug deep inside and…

— Joey Jordison

Our goal was definitely to be the biggest band in the world, for sure.

— Redfoo

As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

— Isaac Hanson