Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.
When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
Good rock music always tends to be around.
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.
Rock music is niche.