Robin Gibb Quotes

I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.

I'm not a big metal fan. I love and respect the musicianship, which is spectacular.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.

What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a different direction.

With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

I consider myself more of a rock 'n' roll fiddler.

I've often talked about metal being the underdog in rock n' roll music.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

Rock n' roll is the Devil's music.

I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.

I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.

With my second album, eOne Music really wanted me to rock it up a little bit.

I've always appreciated more guitar-driven and, in general, just rock music; that's what I listen to. I don't really listen to electronic music.

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore.

I was part of that whole early Moody Blues transitioning from a sort of R&B-blues band to being more progressive.

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

That's what bands like Pink Floyd and bands like Rush and even the Metallica of this world have, which is long, ambitious songs that pull in all different directions.

Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.