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It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?

— Billy Idol

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

— Brian Setzer

I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.

— Tove Lo

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.

— Jack White

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

— Daniel Johns

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

— Jessica Pare

I love '90s grunge and punk.

— Alice Dellal

The world is a pile of grunge.

— Jo Stafford

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.

— Brandon Flowers

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

— Marc Jacobs

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never really followed grunge.

— Robert Quine