The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.
Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.
It's neat to hear a new generation of musicians come up.
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
My goal was to bring good music back.
It's a really good time for California right now in music.
Representing not just the resurrection of a career, 1953 marked 37-year-old Frank Sinatra's creative emergence as the best singer of his century.
I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll wake you up. I feel like jazz needs a big-ass slap.
The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!
The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.
You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!
England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible balance, not just between music that's a rather complex and also pretty direct. Like the Beatles.
Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
I'm in a wonderful position now because the rise of the whole Houston scene, the scene that we've been doing for years that people really didn't embrace a long time ago and now they're embracing it. It's good to be in the middle of that during the uprising.
I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
