Jim Root Quotes

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

MTV ruined music for us.

What I do know is rock and roll and metal never goes away, ever. It took the back seat in America in the '90s. In Japan and South America, it was still really big. I never followed trends, so I don't know the exact function of them.