Dan Hicks Quotes

Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wanted on my Top 40 show, but in terms of boy bands, we're seeing this resurgence, and it's happening, whether you like it or not!

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.

Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.

I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

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

It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.

I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.

With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.

Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.

Every Mr. Big album is an event.

Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They've empowered a whole community in Montreal.

The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

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

Hank Junior fans are Skynyrd fans.

After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can listen to again and again.

I used to love the Wu-Tang Clan. They took my school by storm, by which I mean the three kids in my year who listened to hip-hop. I skipped lectures to go and buy their second album, 'Forever', and then rushed home to listen to it.

We've become an underground thing for kids, because we never got the love our peers got back in the day. Kids are loving discovering us, and I'm happy to be that band.

So many bands would say that they were alternative, or they were this or that... 'Heavy metal' was a pretty uncool word after about 1992; it was almost like, 'Stay away.' But it didn't bother us one bit. And our fans were the best ever.

I can't honestly say with a straight face that every Avenged Sevenfold album is my favorite.

There's people that have never heard our album. The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on the cover of magazines.

When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment.