Johnny Van Zant Quotes

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

I learned to love bluegrass, but my first love stayed hard country.

Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

I just always really loved music that was coincidentally from the States.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.