Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?

When I began to interview people from the '60s, my first question was always, 'What was your favorite record?'

The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

For half a century, the Sunset Strip was the asphalt timeline of American popular music. My most distinct memory, from more years ago than I'll confess to, is waiting for a table at the Olde World, which occupied a wedge of territory at Sunset and Holloway Drive, where the daiquiris became more vicious the longer you sat in the sun.

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.

I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music.

But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.

I listened to oldies radio stations as a kid; lots of Kinks and Beatles and '50s hits.

It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.

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

Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'

I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.