Dave Mustaine Quotes

I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN'R, Megadeth - just classic rock, classic metal stuff.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

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

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

Where I lived, on Long Island, you had the radio stations that always played Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and AC/DC and all that. I grew up on all that stuff.

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

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

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.

I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.

I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

I think my favorite song is by Led Zeppelin called 'Good Times Bad Times,' a Rolling Stones song called 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' and every song The Beatles ever wrote.

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

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

I was born in 1963. So the '70s were my teenage years. As a teenager, I was into rock and roll - Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, even more progressive music like Genesis, and I was into a lot of British rock and roll. But I loved also American rock and roll. CCR, Jimmie Hendrix, The Doors, Patty Smith, and Bob Dylan.

I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of rock music. That's when all the forces combined together-the talent that was available and the freedom for the artists. The industry hadn't become so gigantic.

I was 8 years old when I started listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.

A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

My influences are Alice in Chains and Elton John.

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.