George Crumb Quotes

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

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

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

There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there was a market for it - just as there is today. And there were more bad bands than there were good bands - I think that should always be remembered.

People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

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 market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

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.

No one listens to CDs anymore. Who even owns a CD? I used to bring my CDs to shows, and it was, like, a guarantee that everyone would buy one. Nope! Not anymore.

Bands like - even Kiss to a degree - bands like Kiss and Motley, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi - I just think the days of those bands going out and selling ten or twelve, fifteen million records like they used to do back in the day, it's not happening.

I think we're in a very low point of music right now.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

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.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.

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

Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

Everything goes in cycles in the music industry.