Krist Novoselic Quotes

I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didn't know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

My first albums as a little kid were Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,' Simon and Garfunkel's 'Greatest Hits' - and 'Workingman's Dead.' How many other people still listen to the music they liked at age 12?

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.

When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.

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

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

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.

When I was growing up listening to music, it was 2004, when The Starting Line and Finch and The Used were kind of my favorite bands.

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

I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.

It's so cool to hear these DJs and younger artists that are coming around be like, 'Wow, we love your music.'

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.

Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.

Right after college, I got really into St. Vincent. She just is so cool and out there. I think that's super-inspiring. And tone and mood-wise, I just love Patsy Cline and Ray Charles.

Music is really important to me; Kurt Cobain is important to me. Hearing Nirvana was pretty life-changing.

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

When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.

Kurt Cobain is one of the reasons I started doing music because I just loved to watch them rock out.

I don't really listen to my old music.

Every time I hear a Garth Brooks record I tend to want to hear James Taylor.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.