Tommy Lee Quotes

By the way he carried himself, you really thought that Bon Scott was immortal.

AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.

At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC.

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

A lot of the 'Back In Black' stuff is really challenging.

I'm a guitar player first. So my first hero was Angus Young from AC/DC. I used to copy every move that he did, play every lick that he would. I knew I wanted to be some kind of a rocker, back in the day.

The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

Lemmy Kilmeister is most certainly a rocker.

I would never have thought I would see Axl Rose, someone who was so important to rock 'n' roll.

AC/DC 'Back in Black' - Those were my punk rock days.

If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.

AC/DC will never retire; Angus will never retire.

My first influences for playing were Johnny Ramone and Jimmy Page, the same as everybody else. Joe Perry. The guys in Alice Cooper's band, whatever their names were. Mick Ronson from David Bowie. You know who really influenced me to write songs? Iron Maiden.

I’ve always loved Alice Cooper.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.