Darren Robinson Quotes

Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

I was that kid who made his friends listen to the albums they didn't want to.

I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him.

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.

When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.

The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there it's been an ongoing journey of different bands at different times, introducing bands and songs to me.

I like giving music-themed gifts. I've given a couple of music documentaries to boys. Especially if they don't have the same taste as me, I try to infiltrate their mind with my favourite bands.

All of my style came from listening to records.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.

I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.

PUP introduced me to so much more amazing music. They really shaped my sound.

I must have been about 13 when I first heard Linkin Park and, to be honest, music had never played that much of a part in my life to that point.

I went the more pop-rock route when I was around my teenage years, actually around 13 years old. I think Avril Lavigne really jump-started that. I heard 'Complicated,' and I fell in love, and I've loved her ever since.

I got into James Blake quite early, like when I was early teen, and that was really important for me.

One of my best friends is quite into rap, and I'm always being introduced to music by him.

I love listening a lot and I listen to all sorts of songs, old and new. But the real inspiration has to come from within.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressing room or in my car.

I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.

At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.