David Cassidy Quotes

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

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

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

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.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too... amazing records, amazing songs.

In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

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.

The Dave Clark Five had more appearances on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' than The Beatles.

I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.

Ready, Steady, Go!' was the show of the '60s in London, where the Beatles, the Stones and the DC5, and every other major act started.

The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.

I love music and songwriters from the '60s and '70s.

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

In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.

Growing up with a dad who was a classic-rock guy, I felt out of place with what was happening in pop culture. The Beatles, Zeppelin, T. Rex - that, for me, was the music that could never leave our vocabulary.

I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.