Rory Gallagher Quotes

A lot of my friends, they think I grew up to rock and roll, but I didn't. I grew up to Hank Williams, Jimmy Reid, Howlin' Wolf, listening to a race record, blues.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

I was into Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, the blues.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

I'm a fan of music, some rock music. But I like many types of music. But I suppose a kind of longstanding love of specific bands would be Radiohead, Wilco, Neil Young, Tom Waits, REM.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where we went into the blues.

I liked the Doors and that kind of music.

Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

I love OneRepublic, The Script, All Time Low. I love pretty much every genre. I love the Rolling Stones and Elvis.

I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.