Billy Squier Quotes

To me, rock and roll is not a perfect science.

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock n' roll, and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music.

People come in because they like 'Old Town Road.' They'll find out that I'm just not going to stick to that.

I did alternative rock before. That's why my style is the way it is now.

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.