Beats Quote by Trevor Horn

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

It's true that we come from the electronic scene in the '90s, but maybe just two years before that we were not listening to…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise.…

— Lester Bangs

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces…

— Paul Lansky

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

— David Bowie

There's such an energy and emotion to rock music, which is a lot of the reason I go back to '60s and '70s bands…

— Jim Root

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

— Thomas Bangalter

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

— Ted Dwane

The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands…

— Reed Mullin

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

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

— David Byrne

Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been…

— Illinois Jacquet