(36 quotes found)
“it is straight out of its time, from the rock music to the anti-Vietnam War sentiment.”
Oskar Eustis
“I'm just trying to record as much as I can, ... It's like a lifelong obsession with rock music that I've had since I was very young. I don't know what it is, but I like it and want to be around it and participate in it. It's the same today, a very youthful kind of feeling.”
Frank Black
“The thing I like about that whole movement is that you can continue with rock music, but bring it to a real musical, harmonic, melodic, rhythmic place where it isn't just rock anymore -- you can extend what music is. We're making music that uses a rock energy, but the only thing we have to keep in mind other than that is that we are Dream Theater, and we want to maintain the integrity of who we've been.”
Jordan Rudess
“I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That's where my heart is. I try to keep up with the rock world as much as I can.”
Tracy Byrd
“We play standard pop/rock music. I write most of the music, and bring it to the band so we can shape it together.”
Brad Callow
“Androgyny and rock music are not new things. [David]Bowie, Arthur 'Killer' Kane and the Smashing Pumpkins have been doing it forever. Plus [androgyny and rock] go together really well.”
Ryan Moore
“We all sort of came at it from weird angles. Most of the guys in the band played rock music, punk rock, before this. I have a degree in English that I don't use very much anymore. That kind of thing is maybe good for serving you coffee in the morning these days.”
Rob Bullington
“The thing that I think is cool about pop music in general is just that it's not like rock music or country music or R&B ? there can be pop songs that are any kind of style. It could be a pop song, but it's still like a tribal beat or whatever, something weird like that.”
Forrest Kline
“We have been playing rock music our whole lives. That is that moment. That is a rock star moment.”
Jake Slichter
“I think when the Beatles first came on the scene, people were unhappy with the rock music, long hair and the way the crowd responded. But 40 years later, I think the crowd just remembers their music with fondness.”
Rev. Rusty May
