Lee Ranaldo Quotes

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre.

I do write a lot of folky songs naturally.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

I could do James Taylor, Neil Young, and sound just like them.

Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Neil Young and Bob Dylan are my main influences.

To be honest, the acoustic stuff's my favorite thing to do.

In terms of tone and style, I've always been influenced by a lot of different players. I love Nick Drake, Mike Bloomfield and Sonic Boom. I like those three a lot!

When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.

It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.