Walter Becker Quotes

I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.

We'd love to see Led Zeppelin on 'Guitar Hero.'

When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach Boys and then of course The Beatles, Stones. And of course in the 60's, I was completely blown away like everyone else by Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck and all of that... so those were my influences.

My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

I love old school rock and roll.

My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

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 met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.

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

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

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.

You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it's a big rock band.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.