Neil Innes Quotes

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

Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.

I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.

Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without Cream, there is no Allman Brothers.

I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

I love Eric Clapton.

The Yardbirds folded in 1968, and within a handful of months, Led Zeppelin was not only a band but also a very successful one.

You stop anybody on any street, around the world, and they know who Eric Clapton is. They don't know who I am!

I always did have a kind of candle shining for Peter Green. I mean, he was my god.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player.

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

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.

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later.

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.

I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.

I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'

Paul McCartney has always been the love of my life.

I was a kid that grew up listening to The Beatles and The Stones and Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, and I wanted all of that in there. But at the same time, a large part of my playing is Tony Iommi and Billy Gibbons. I'm just a sum total of all of the guitar players that I think were really cool.

My favorite aspect of music is the performance part!

I used to jam with Steve Marriott of the Small Faces.