Michael Rapaport Quotes

I like Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' because it's got a nice low singing voice.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It's what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

And my biggest revelation that will never be beaten is the Beatles. I couldn't believe that I'd gone my whole life without knowing all those songs.

Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter.

Anyone who grew up with me knows that Queen is my favorite band of all time.

'Bohemian Rhapsody' is my all-time favorite.

I've always been a fan of Drake's. I wouldn't say I listen to all of his music, but I would say that I pick tunes out of his that I love and then put them on repeat.

John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.

I'd say most of the rest of the world are bigger Beatles fans than me. They'd know more of the songs and more of the lyrics - I don't really know that stuff. I just respect them.

My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.

I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.

I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age.

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!