Art & Creativity Quote by Dave Davies

“Good rock music always tends to be around” is the kind of offhand line that sounds casual until you notice how much it’s pushing back against. Dave Davies isn’t making a grand prophecy; he’s swatting away the recurring obituary that rock gets handed every decade. The phrasing matters: “tends to” is modest, almost shruggy, and that’s the point. Rock doesn’t survive because it’s ordained. It survives the way streetlight weeds survive - by being hard to fully pave over.

Davies’ context is key. As a Kinks co-founder and a patron saint of the guitar riff, he watched rock mutate from a youthquake into an industry, then into a museum piece people keep trying to revive with “return to guitars” think pieces. His claim isn’t that the charts will always be ruled by bands; it’s that the impulse behind rock - distortion, attitude, a little ugliness, the thrill of a loud room - keeps resurfacing whenever culture gets too clean or too controlled.

The subtext is also a defense of craft over trend. “Good” is doing the heavy lifting. Plenty of rock disappears because it’s decorative; the good stuff sticks because it’s functional, a tool for feeling things at full volume. Davies is quietly arguing that rock is less a genre than a pressure valve. Pop can absorb it, hip-hop can sample it, indie can soften it, but the raw circuitry remains available, waiting for someone angry, horny, or restless enough to plug in.