Bob Mould Quotes

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing.

Bob Dylan is great. I've been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, 'Bob Dylan!'

Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is.

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.

You know, I thought seeing Aretha Franklin last year was amazing, and I didn't think anyone can top that. But if someone can, John Legend would be the man. In my mind, he's a legend, no pun intended.

Any time you get to see Paul McCartney, it is pretty special.

I've always played acoustically - it's how I learned. I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Dylan and what have you.

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out, just packed and full of really great musicians.

One of the things about live music that's so incredibly important and can't be replaced and automated is the common focus of a room full of people having that human contact and being immersed in the sensory overload of a rock concert.

Performing live has been one of the most important opportunities I've been given, and I am lucky to share my music with so many of my amazing, loyal, and diverse fans.

I do think image is important in a band, because when I go see a show, I want to see a show; I don't want to just listen to the music.

When we were growing up, we listened to all sorts of music, but the first band that really grabbed all of us live was AFI.