Gord Downie Quotes

I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.

I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

I honestly grew up listening to the Stones more. But that doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles.

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

I'm more in the Stones camp than the Beatles camp.

I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.

Don't get me wrong, The Beatles are one of our all-time favourite bands, but there's a lot more we were influenced by.

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

I tend to be a jam-band fan, and I love the Rolling Stones.

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

If you look in my CD case, you'll see it's Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, now I can't think of anyone else, but all that stuff.

I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.

Were the Rolling Stones good looking? Well, Jagger was, but the rest of the dudes? Maybe not so much.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.

I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.