Peter Hook Quotes

Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

People like Prince don't have to care about anything, but they care because they want music for the future to be great.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

There's no outdoing The Beatles.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't make music so you could go check out Sam Cooke.

My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too.

We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.