Steven Price Quotes

I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.

Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

Progressive rock was happening.

When you look at what we can call the golden era of concept albums, which starts in the mid or late '60s and ends maybe in the early '80s, it's an interesting time for music. You see all these very established and popular acts and bands and artists that were somehow on the top of their game but really trying to experiment.

The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.

I thought 'Arnold Layne' was a nice name and fitted well into the music I had already composed. Then I thought, 'Arnold must have a hobby,' and it went from there.

There's no doubt that prog rock has an image problem: many musicians hate the label, and too many people associate it with 10-minute drum solos and the weirder bits of JRR Tolkien.

'Beck-Ola' is a weird album.

To me, prog-rock is ELP. And for me personally, that stuff is really boring.

Tame Impala and I love the psychedelia. To me, it sounds like Blind Faith and old bands from back in the freak days. It just hit a nerve to me. I was just really feeling that sound.

I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of rock music. That's when all the forces combined together-the talent that was available and the freedom for the artists. The industry hadn't become so gigantic.

Pink Floyd, the most successful progressive rock band of all time, have stood the test of time because the emphasis was always on melody and atmosphere.

I was always a Pink Floyd fan, and I was always into movie soundtracks.

That's what bands like Pink Floyd and bands like Rush and even the Metallica of this world have, which is long, ambitious songs that pull in all different directions.

I got introduced to Western music and it inspired me. One of my favourite bands is Pink Floyd.

I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.

For more than 15 years, Mogwai has built a reputation on its monstrous ambitions for rock music.

Generally speaking, I like all music, but Pink Floyd and Muse are my favorite bands.

I've put out records over the years, whether it's with Blackfield or No-Man or Bass Communion or Porcupine Tree, that are pop records, ambient records, metal records, singer-songwriter records.