Paul Weller Quotes

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.

I was enamored with music at a very young age. Everything started with kundiman, then evolved to Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, and eventually classic rock music.

I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do.

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.

Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

I'd asked for things like the 'Footloose' soundtrack and Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' for my birthdays, but I remember walking what felt like miles to this cassette shop called The Warehouse to buy Paul Simon's 'Graceland,' U2's 'Joshua Tree' and a Roberta Flack album. I had pretty good taste.

I honestly grew up listening to the Stones more. But that doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles.

Brendon's more of a Peter Gabriel fan, and I'm more of a Ray Davies fan.

My sister loved country music. My mother loved Spanish music. And my dad was into big band music and jazz.

My brain has been programmed to listen to music a certain way because of the Beatles.

Music is music - it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.

A lot of music that's my favorite doesn't sound like the music I write.

Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.

Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching 'The Wall' and, you know, 'Money' and 'Dark Side of the Moon,' which are fantastic records, of course.

I don't just listen to rap.

I think your musical tastes are largely shaped at a young age by your parents, as they're in charge of what's on in the car.

A lot of people that only like country music, they're not fans of mine.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.