Roger Daltrey Quotes

Rock music is niche.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

The Go-Go's were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

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

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

I never really followed grunge.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

I think it'd be weird for us to do hard rock.

If you go back and listen to the album 'Name' was on, there were a lot of garage songs on it.

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I'd never gotten into punk. I don't really like that music of Crass, but I love the band, and I love their way, and their presentation.

'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.

I think that's one of the beautiful things about this genre is that everyone who's in it isn't in it to make a million bucks and be popular, because that's not always our M.O. Really, I think the last time that rock was truly in the mainstream was probably a point in time in the '90s when there was a lot of alternative that was on the pop charts.