Greg Gutfeld Quotes

You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.

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

Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren't alive, unfortunately.

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

I really don't feel the need to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because, at the end of the day, it's just somebody's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have a particular process, and they're welcome to do it however they want to do it.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you.

Beyonce, Otis Redding, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, and Adele are a few of my favorites.

When fans come to me, and they say, 'You're my favorite singer in rock music,' and I go, 'What about Steven Tyler?' 'No, I like you better.' 'What about Robert Plant?' 'I like you better.' That's kind of weird to me, because I'm like, 'No, dude - Steven Tyler and Robert Plant are gods.'

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke - the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.