Creativity Quote by Evan Dando

Rock'n'roll, Evan Dando insists, isn’t a sermon - it’s a sandbox. That opening move (“doesn’t have any point”) reads like a rebuke to the constant demand that artists justify themselves: explain your message, your politics, your “purpose.” Dando swats it away with a shrug that’s also a philosophy. Fun isn’t a guilty pleasure here; it’s the whole point, a defense of music as lived experience rather than argument.

Then he complicates his own dismissal. “It has a million different angles and they’re all valid” is a surprisingly democratic claim from a scene that’s often policed by authenticity tests. In the early-90s alt-rock ecosystem Dando came up in, credibility was currency, and people loved drawing hard borders around what counted. His line quietly refuses that gatekeeping: rock can be trashy, tender, ironic, brainy, dumb, private, public - and still be rock.

The pivot is the tell: “But I think rock might be a world issue.” He’s not backtracking so much as admitting that a music with “no point” still carries consequences. Rock exports attitude as much as sound; it teaches posture, rebellion, belonging, even masculinity. It travels across borders, gets translated, commercialized, censored, weaponized, adopted by kids who need a language adults don’t control. Dando’s subtext is that rock’s power isn’t in a single message but in its portability: a fun thing that becomes a social force the moment enough people use it to mean something.