Timothy B. Schmit Quotes

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

I feel like I love a little bit of everything. I grew up listening to the stuff my parents liked, from Earth, Wind & Fire, Luther Vandross, Billy Joel to Bruce Springsteen and The Mommas & The Poppas.

I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.

I grew up on R&B and soul, so that backbone is always there.

My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.

The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.'

I think it's all about the music you listen to along the way. For me, my parents always played Motown music and The Beatles, so I was drawn to the soul.

As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock n' roll, like Jimi Hendrix. Not so much because of my parents, who used to play a lot of Nina Simone and older blues, but my brother and sister.

I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

I'm not a big disco guy.

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.