Jeff Hanneman Quotes

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.

I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there except by helicopter.

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 know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do.

The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard Led Zeppelin. They have the same kind of power.

When I grew up and went to school, all the cool kids were in Carhartts and Mudd boots, and they were listening to the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers and driving Volkswagens.

I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to camp out on the land, I'm going to try an' get my soul free.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.

Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

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

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.

I tend to be a jam-band fan, and I love the Rolling Stones.