Don Felder Quotes

I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I was 8 years old when I started listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.

I liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Those were some of my favorites.

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

If you look in my CD case, you'll see it's Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, now I can't think of anyone else, but all that stuff.

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

I never saw The Beatles live. I was very aware of them, though.

I knew The Beatles before because we did our first television with them, 'Thank Your Lucky Stars.'

I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records.

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.

I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again in '73. But I was one of the original members, and I was a big part of that.

I don't hate pop music. I liked the Beatles, but then, I knew them.