John Ortiz Quotes

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

God bless classic rock. It's been very good to me; I'll tell you that.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

Richard Julian was the one who told me to check out Cartola. Telling someone to check out Cartola is like telling someone to check out Tony Bennett, you know.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

Don't get me wrong, I love my first two albums a lot.

Growing up, we had folk records.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

'Imperfiction' will forever be one of my favorite records and moments in time.

If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.

Henley's one of my favorite singers. I've maintained a friendship with Don over the years.

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.

I loved Van Halen; I loved everything we did.

After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can listen to again and again.

I've had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I've had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, 'At the end of the day, did you have a good time?' That's it.

The thing about Shaggy's records are those records are very timeless.

I've heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.