Why would heavy metal ever go away?
Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.
There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.
Long as the Earth is here, hip-hop'll be here.
I sometimes think a movement as rich and wild and incredible as Tropicalismo wouldn't have survived without incredibly catchy music.
The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.
You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.
In my eyes, and in my opinion, the guitar is strong and powerful and will never die.
People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.
The poetry of country music will survive.
My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.
If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.
I think we were damned lucky that our music never went down the drain because we went down the drain, and I think, in truth, there are moments where you could have said we got pretty close, you know.
Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.
The Beatles will exist without us.
Vinyl survived, we managed not to kill it. Knowing that you’ve taken part in this fight... You can’t imagine the happiness it brings. Every time I see a kid going out of the store with a vinyl record under the arms, my heart beats faster. Music should only be this. An intense emotion.
Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them.
I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.
An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.
I have lots of friends who are musicians and it is such a huge victory to survive in music, period - but if you get sick or injured and don't have the kind of coverage we get in Canada, you are doomed.
Bob Dylan is someone that - I don't care how long into the future it is - somebody will still play Bob Dylan. He will always survive.
In the music business, if you're not a fighter, you will get walked all over.
