Johnny Van Zant Quotes

I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

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

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.

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.

The public doesn't want new music.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

In Presley's time, you didn't dare not to be a fan of his, because you were part of a club. Now you can say I prefer Billy Joel or Tina Turner or someone else. It's all fractionalized.

My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.

I don't listen to much rap outside of Run DMC and the Beasties, but then I'm pretty burned out on most new music.

I listen to everything from Lady Gaga to Lady Antebellum. I've got Frank Sinatra. I've got old stuff, new stuff. Iggy Azalea. I've got everything.

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.

I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.