Mick Foley Quotes

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'trendy' because true passion always eclipses what's fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.

It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.

And I know how many DJ pools have grown and I know how DJing has grown in the overall, but that was the technical side of it to me. DJs were rolling around, looking for stuff to buy and looking to see what was in the store when they get there.

I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music.

I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

My audience is a huge part of my success, so I see us as a team. They send me tons of song requests every day. Some of the songs I've never heard before, but I listen to them and then pick the ones that I love.

I'd asked for things like the 'Footloose' soundtrack and Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' for my birthdays, but I remember walking what felt like miles to this cassette shop called The Warehouse to buy Paul Simon's 'Graceland,' U2's 'Joshua Tree' and a Roberta Flack album. I had pretty good taste.

I love to offer a playlist to the world, almost like being a deejay.

Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.

When I left the country to study in the U.K., I suddenly realized, and I'm still realizing, how much other stuff is out there - like My Bloody Valentine, who millions of people are passionate about, but they're still considered an 'underground' band.

I'm in a car so much on tour that I often just ask my friends to DJ and ask them what they like. That's the best way I discover music.

My mum wasn't the sort of person who would ordinarily listen to heavy metal. But she thinks Babymetal's songs are cool. She's a big fan.

I blame my parents for never introducing me to good music.

I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.

Any songs that I like, I sort of rinse them out.

I found dozens of albums I loved every year of the early 70s and more in the late 70s and more still in the decades since, partly because I knew more about music by then and partly because there were more to choose from.

When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music.

I devoured everything on the radio, I felt like I knew music.