Suzuka Nakamoto Quotes

My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey.

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

Rush and guitarist Alex Lifeson are among my biggest influences.

GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together.

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.

My influences are Alice in Chains and Elton John.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.

I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

I enjoy classic Led Zeppelin.

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

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

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

I was such a big Kiss and Van Halen fan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Racer X... all that stuff. I loved everybody.

Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.

I'm just as much into Emperor as I am Alice Cooper.