Jonathan Davis Quotes

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

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

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

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.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

The media, being what it is, is always looking for the next new thing. There are still bands out there playing, no matter what the new thing is. The Stones go out there, and people go see them without records or even airplay.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.

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.

I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.

Most youngsters are so well-connected with the rock music circle that they will know instantly if I attempt to imitate any rock star.

Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and it's not going to go away.

Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!

Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.