Taylor Goldsmith Quotes

I dare anybody to display a more amazing body of work than Tom Petty.

My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles - I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.

I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.

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

I enjoy classic Led Zeppelin.

Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.

My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

I love listening to old records. Stuff from the '70s, even disco and funk records and a lot of early rock albums - what's great about those recordings is that you can actually hear the true tones of the drums themselves.

Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like 'Simple Man' and 'Free Bird' and 'Alabama.' I wasn't prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs.

Doing the classics is always nice because it's a part of the archive, and that's what people love to hear, and I don't mind that.

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.

When you grow up in Atlanta, joining Lynyrd Skynyrd is like joining the Rolling Stones.

I grew up listening to the greats of the '80s and, thanks to my parents, the '70s - the Doobie Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie.

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.

We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.