Eric Carmen Quotes

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

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

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

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

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.'

I'm a really big Fiona Apple fan, and more times than not, when I put her on in the car, people are surprised. I think they associate her less as a songwriter and more as a '90s MTV generation artist.

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

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

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

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.

AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

Rock music is niche.

The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.