Tim Commerford Quotes

I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.

As far as favorite tunes, 'You Know You Know' is one, and why it is important is difficult to say. The rhythmic cycle is very interesting and challenging to play, since it can be considered three bars of 4/4 or four bars of 3/4. 'The Dance of Maya' is another, and I have to mention 'Sanctuary.'

To me, prog-rock is ELP. And for me personally, that stuff is really boring.

We're fans of stuff like Maiden, but I think we generally get it from weirder places. For me, the Eagles' 'Hotel California' represents one of the most brilliant harmony approaches to music. Boston did it very well, too.

I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day.

Rock and jazz came together in a very powerful way on 'Barabajagal.'

I started to get turned on to a bunch of different bands when I was in middle school/high school. I was turned onto The Who and Black Sabbath and Yes, and stuff like that. But Rush I obsessed over. I wanted to have every album. I wanted to know storylines, read all the lyrics, learn the songs and everything.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

I was interested in music since I was 14 years old. What really got me started was the first Led Zeppelin album... absolutely.

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

Where I lived, on Long Island, you had the radio stations that always played Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and AC/DC and all that. I grew up on all that stuff.

I grew up in a very music-loving home with a lot of records, a lot of TV, a lot of radio, a lot of video - VHS cinema, basically.

I was always a Pink Floyd fan, and I was always into movie soundtracks.

I was part of that whole early Moody Blues transitioning from a sort of R&B-blues band to being more progressive.

I worked with Chris Squire on a Greg Lake record in the early '80s, worked with Alan White.

A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.

More than a quarter of a century into the band's career together, it's inspiring to hear Melvins continue to deafen new generations of listeners.

I'll never forget when I heard Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs for the first time. I was just blown away, and it changed my whole approach to guitar.

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