Gary Rossington Quotes

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'

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

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.

Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.

I used to listen to the Beatles and Stones, whereas Angus was more into the heavier stuff - Cream, Hendrix - with the lead guitar.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

The Yardbirds folded in 1968, and within a handful of months, Led Zeppelin was not only a band but also a very successful one.

Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.

When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff - Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even now, to this day, it's the music I listen to a lot of the time.

If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it could draw a crowd as well. All of which made a huge impression on me.

I really like Colin Blunstone, the lead singer of the Zombies.

I like 'Salty Dog' by Procol Harum.

Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without Cream, there is no Allman Brothers.

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.

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.

I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on 'Tommy' and let them experience like I did that moment when 'Pinball Wizard' comes on.

I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George Harrison.

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.