Judd Apatow Quotes

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just liked their song on the radio. We liked that because that was what we had access to.

It frustrated me at college that all the acts in the Top 10 were like The Moody Blues and Phil Collins. It was like why did we get stuck with the last generation's music, why can't we have our own?

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

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.

People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

My first albums as a little kid were Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,' Simon and Garfunkel's 'Greatest Hits' - and 'Workingman's Dead.' How many other people still listen to the music they liked at age 12?

I think we all love the music we listened to as kids the most.

My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.

I don't really listen to my old music.

My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.

The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.

I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass.

I got kicked out of my father's home because of my feelings towards hip-hop.

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.

There was this guy I used to work with, and he listened to Patsy Cline all the time, so I liked that after a while.

I always come back to the gentler stuff like Simon & Garfunkel and the Fleet Foxes' first album - that's quite an odd one.

I'm trying to get my kids - in particular, my step-daughter Mary, who's 12 - to recommend music to me. You reach a certain age and realise you haven't kept up, but I don't want to fall behind.

My middle school years were defined by memorizing every single word off 'License to Ill' and 'Paul's Boutique.'

I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and they work for me.