Andrew Flintoff Quotes

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time.

Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me.

When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

I want my music, whether it's sung by other people or sung by myself, to affect the way the Top 40 radio sounds. I want to heavily influence it with things that have come directly from my brain.

It really does help everyone when there are some big bands leading the charge.

When we started, there were no other distractions like the Internet and video games, so music was central to young people's lives.

There is no everlasting power in the music of today. Everyone is running after record sales.

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an estimated factor of ten.

When I first started, in 2006, it was an exciting time. Independent, cool, weird artists were being successful, and magazines were writing about them, and people were getting played on radio that were, like, really good.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that's it, and somebody else come in.

You get x amount of years at the top… boybands are like buses - there's always another one coming along.

I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend. I was fine with that, but I have a lot more to offer.

You'll see an erosion of rock 'n' roll for sure... if you're playing a mainstream festival, you don't want to be the rock guy when everyone else is talking about Swedish House Mafia.

We went through an era of big dance records, an era of hip-hop being the biggest thing on the planet. The people who really break through are the people who are not afraid to express themselves in how they feel.

Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.