Music Quote by Simon Frith

“Rock Music? No way, dude. Rock rules, and always will.”

— Meg Cabot

“Rock, for all the power of its individual dreams, is still confined by its mass cultural form. Its history, like the history of America…

— Simon Frith

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

— Don DeLillo

“For the love of rocks”

— Jenn Bennett

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

— Pete Townshend

“Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They also forget…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

“In 1982 the SED admitted that rock music did in fact exist”

— Alexandra Richie

Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.

— Lester Bangs

Ultimately, to insist that rock criticism be political is first to insist that the humans who make and enjoy music are embroiled in politics…

— Robert Christgau

“Rock and roll is simply an attitude. You con't have to play the greatest guitar.”

— Johnny Thunders

I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments…

— Nancy Wilson

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

— Ruben Blades