George Ezra Quotes

Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

I honestly grew up listening to the Stones more. But that doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles.

Brendon's more of a Peter Gabriel fan, and I'm more of a Ray Davies fan.

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

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

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

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

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.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

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

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.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.

I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

My brother really shaped my musical taste when I was younger. He turned me on to classic rock like Led Zeppelin, and then he got me into R.E.M. and U2.

I love all types of music... but pop is where my heart is at.

It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least.

I think we all love the music we listened to as kids the most.