Paul Weller Quotes

I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

A formidable game of 'Name That Influence' could be based on the music of the seductive rock duo Girls: The band's first single, 'Hellhole Ratrace,' would barely reach its opening words before screams of 'Elvis Costello!' and 'Wreckless Eric!' drown out the music.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

I never really followed grunge.

Rock music is niche.

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

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

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

I liked the Doors and that kind of music.

But when I was 12 or 13, I found the acoustic guitar and got into guitar music ultimately, like Black Motorcycle Club, obviously Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash.

I love the Black Keys because I love that guy's voice.

I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.

I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.

'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.

I'm still waiting for rock bands to come back, something raw and relevant.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. What we're trying to do is play rock 'n' roll, but other people call it different things.