Chad Gilbert Quotes

Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

Things that excite me are these four different bands: Wire, with a song called 'Champs,' Misfits, with a song called 'Hybrid Moments,' R. Stevie Moore, and Wipers 'Wait A Minute.'

I don't know how old I was when I first started going to shows, maybe 14 or 15, but very quickly, I discovered Dischord Records in D.C. and loved all the music on that catalog. I was a big Rites of Spring fan, Minor Threat, of course.

We were fans of Green Day and Nirvana or whatever, but the bands we really loved were Chicago bands that didn't really sound anything like Alkaline Trio.

If you go back and listen to the album 'Name' was on, there were a lot of garage songs on it.

I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

I enjoy independent music, even more than Bollywood.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

When I joined the band, I hadn't been introduced to a lot of these bands on the scene - no emo bands or punk bands. The only band I knew was My Chemical Romance.

We were so heavily influenced by The Replacements and by a lot of hard core bands like Bad Brains, not that we sounded like them but we were trying to play as hard and fast as we could.

We're not a Screamo band.

A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.

I think it'd be weird for us to do hard rock.

There are so many bands I am starting to see: Waterparks, Potty Mouth - they're all garage bands that started in the garage. Kids are loving them.

I'm the Folk Implosion's biggest fan.

I really love Grimes, Niki & the Dove, stuff like that.