At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.
It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like, 'Punk rock? Put it back. It's just a flash in the pan.'
If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it.
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.
In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.
Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.
The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.