Iconic Bands Quotes

So I wouldn't see Wings as a band that would go into the Hall of Fame, to be honest.

Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.

You can't love music without loving the Beatles.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

Don't get me wrong, The Beatles are one of our all-time favourite bands, but there's a lot more we were influenced by.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

When I think of bands that have maintained a certain level of success all along - Metallica, or the Red Hot Chili Peppers - no matter what anybody thinks about them, you have to look at them and say, 'Wow, those guys operated under the most pressure.'

Probably every band - you get back to like, The Stones are kind of the tough guys, Beatles are kind of psychedelic, Led Zeppelin was kinda mystical, The Who are kind of mods. You know, you just go right through. Everyone's kind of adopted their so-called persona or flavor if you will.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

I know, being a band that's mostly gay and has women in it, I just think that there are the male icon bands: they are always - and they deserve it - but they are always touted as, 'These guys are heavy-duty.' I think bands, because we have a sense of humor, we are not always taken as seriously.

Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.

Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working with Paul, whom I always admired.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

We have always been like The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac in that we have numerous lead singers.

We're never gonna see bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath again. It's over.

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.

When I heard The Beatles, that was my turning point. They were like my mentors. You know, the funny thing about that, when I heard 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand,' at first I said these guys are like a flash in the pan. But the second album, I had to take all that back. John Lennon - one of the greatest writers in the world.

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.

I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs that lead to the stage. I imagine Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and all those other great bands climbing those same stairs.

We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.