Walter Becker Quotes

Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous.

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

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.

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.

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

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

Rock and roll has become entertainment that just says what the consumer wants to hear. There's no more edge or rebellion that sets it apart from the norm.

We was on our way to fame, got matching suits and Beatle boots.

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

You know what, Nickelback's alright.

Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.

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

Anytime fashion and music go hand-in-hand and it really is an organic fit, it's amazing.

We're all big fans of pop music; this is definitely the direction we've always wanted to head in.

'Course, 'Santini' bombed in England, y'know. It came out at the height of the New Wave, which couldn't have been a worse time for a solo singer trying to sell rock melodies.

The Monkees? I heard that they were quite into their party scene at one point.

Though rock is not the force that it once was in America, it still has a loyal fan base that always seems to continue regardless of what popular culture deems as the 'cool thing.'

We really like L.A. because it really likes rock and roll.

'Elle' is such an iconic magazine, and the intersection of fashion and music has always been something that fascinates me.

When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads. They thought all the Raspberries were was players of high-energy rock songs.

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

It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect - it's like we're making a product.

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.

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

I love the fact that young people are into rock 'n' roll music.