British Rock Quotes

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. 'The Great Gig in the Sky,' 'Echoes,' there's lot of them.

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius.

I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.

It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt.

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

I was a big Oasis fan.

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

I've always been into easy music. When I was 15, the record for me was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard.

'The Yes Album,' of course, was the album that put Yes' name on the worldwide stage.

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

I was born in 1963. So the '70s were my teenage years. As a teenager, I was into rock and roll - Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, even more progressive music like Genesis, and I was into a lot of British rock and roll. But I loved also American rock and roll. CCR, Jimmie Hendrix, The Doors, Patty Smith, and Bob Dylan.

I don't know a lot of Kasabian's music. I am into rock music but I don't know their stuff.

British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.

Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them with Van Morrison was a big influence on me, too, as were The Stones; The Yardbirds, John Mayall, and the other British blues pioneers.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.