Simon Helberg Quotes

I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

I have to admit to being a music snob. I think, in a parallel universe, I pretty easily could have been Jack Black's character from 'High Fidelity,' working in a record store and snidely commenting on everyone's purchases.

Hey, I was one of those hip-hop kids who used to hate on things that would become popular.

Just because something's kinda indie and whatever and only a few people know it, it doesn't give it more authenticity over Rihanna's 'Work' work work.

If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.

Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

Nothing wrong with pop!

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

I like bands that don't necessarily sell the most records.

I love pop music, and I love when music is accessible.