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Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge' ... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.
The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.
It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.
Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.
I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.
Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.
fusing themselves into a single new genre about partying all night with gangsta bitches screwing cowboys to the nasty beat that leads to Jesus.
I'm a huge Nirvana fan.
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that'll be the thing to do.
I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
I don't really like Nirvana that much.
Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.
It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.
(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.
I soaked my soul in Rock and Roll
The still, sad music of humanity.
American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'
If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it ... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.
Food is the new rock and roll.
Foul smell of the things that we do to escape
There is no glamour in this. No rock and roll.
This is just endings. This is just grief.
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
Genre? What's that?Genre-- June Winton
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
Rock and roll is the new pornography.
Rock, for all the power of its individual dreams, is still confined by its mass cultural form. Its history, like the history of America itself, is a history of class struggle--the struggle for fun.
Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.
There was a thing during those times in the '80s where it was like Sex Pistols then Nirvana and nothing in between.
There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment - but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!
From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.
I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.
We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.
There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.
I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts ...
I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.
If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.
Rock 'n roll was born in the South. It's like saying rock-rock.
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay
I grew up in the '90s, and I loved Nirvana.
Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.
The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.
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 my generation's revolutionary, sexual, poetic, and political voice, but it had become corporatized. It was going into stadiums. It was so far removed from its basic roots.
Progressive rock was happening.
If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.
I heard what I'd learned against my will to identify as new age music. Aimless and spacey, it meandered from unresolved keyboard chord to unresolved keyboard chord with some somnolent noodling in place of melody. Drooling pianos, music to sleepwalk by.
It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release.
Rock and roll is here to stay.
Rock'n'roll saved my soul.
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues ... It's called rock now.
If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.
I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.
The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
Rock ... is the expression of elemental passions ... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.
There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.
The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.
Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back.
My God is rock'n'roll.
Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.
Welcome to Atlanta
Jack and hammers and vogues
Back to the mackin' and jackin' the clothes
Adolescents packin the fo'
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.
Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.
I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.
I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I love punk music. I'm also a fan of mixing vintage with some high fashion, which links back to my musical taste because I tend to mix old music with newer songs.
Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.
When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer
In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'
I sold my soul to rock and roll.
It's really hard to name a band.
The original concept of rock and roll ... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and i'ts all this energy.
Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.