Brandon Flowers Quotes

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.

I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

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

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

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

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

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

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

I didn't hate Nirvana. That was more of a media-constructed this-versus-that thing.

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.

I think rock 'n' roll, in a way, has been dead for a long time.

I feel like rock n' roll has become very tame.

EDM is here to stay. If you're 19 years old, this is your rock 'n' roll.

When we came out, the kind of music that was popular was Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, all that stuff. That was when we released our second album, 'Images And Words', and it was something people werent used to hearing maybe, and it sort of rose above all that somehow, being progressive, or whatever.

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

Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.

When I heard 'Back to Black' from Amy Winehouse, I was, like, 'Wow.' To hear such a soulful voice that feels like it's from a different era, I mean, it felt so fresh and unique, and that was something that opened my eyes and made me believe that it's not always about churning out the same thing in this industry.

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.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.