Kurt Vile Quotes

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.

Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.

I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

Beastie Boys and David Bowie are two of my favorite artists.

I like the Carpenters and Elvis.

I'm a fan of music, some rock music. But I like many types of music. But I suppose a kind of longstanding love of specific bands would be Radiohead, Wilco, Neil Young, Tom Waits, REM.

I liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Those were some of my favorites.

I've always enjoyed Cheap Trick.

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

I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.

I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

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.

Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.

I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well.

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.

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.

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

I love '80s rock music. I was fascinated with Stevie Nicks when I was growing up.

You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

I think we've got three that we have to play, and that would be 'Surrender,' 'Dream Police' and 'I Want You to Want Me.'

I grew up listening to blues and rock n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me. Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school. It's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

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

The songs my band and I like to sing - the songs that the room will erupt for - are '90s hits, like 'All Star.'