Tommy Ramone Quotes

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

There's no doubt that prog rock has an image problem: many musicians hate the label, and too many people associate it with 10-minute drum solos and the weirder bits of JRR Tolkien.

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

When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy the logic that somehow these things don't fit in the same musical well.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.

Progressive rock was happening.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of rock music. That's when all the forces combined together-the talent that was available and the freedom for the artists. The industry hadn't become so gigantic.

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

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

Some of the newer bands I like include Queensryche and Marillion, and I was glad when Yes reformed. Also, Kingdom Come; I was laughing when I first heard it and going 'This is outrageous,' but it's a really album. I went to see them play and enjoyed it.

Those late '60s early '70s bands would take it really far out and get super-weird.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.

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

I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

When you look at what we can call the golden era of concept albums, which starts in the mid or late '60s and ends maybe in the early '80s, it's an interesting time for music. You see all these very established and popular acts and bands and artists that were somehow on the top of their game but really trying to experiment.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.

My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.