Words matter. These are the best Classic Rock Quotes from famous people such as Jon Pardi, Sara Paxton, Louise Post, Phil Anselmo, Brett Favre, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.
I grew up loving classic rock music – The Beatles, The Rolling Stones – and then one day I heard ‘Baby One More Time’ on the radio and I thought ‘What is this?’ I was eight and it changed my life.
My big brother listened to classic rock, and I grew up listening to a classic rock station called KSHE.
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 really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
Over time, I’ve loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.
Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.
I am a child of the ’70s, so I love classic rock – Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
My brother really shaped my musical taste when I was younger. He turned me on to classic rock like Led Zeppelin, and then he got me into R.E.M. and U2.
But my everyday music is classic rock. It’s what I relate to the most and where my heart is.
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don’t like the contemporary music very much.
Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.
I love the blues. I love rock. I love classic rock. I love country. All types of music I can appreciate.
The most important thing is I am trying to bring classic rock into pop culture, so I don’t think anything is going to look like vintage or old-school.
I was enamored with music at a very young age. Everything started with kundiman, then evolved to Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, and eventually classic rock music.
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they’re so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That’s why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can’t figure that out.
I’m into classic rock, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel.
I probably have the most versatile playlist in the world, from country to rap to classic rock to classical.
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that’s the top notch. I love soul – bluesy music as well.
The big stadiums get totally packed, and everyone knows the words, and it’s screaming young girls. I met a whole bunch of great Nashville musicians, and they accepted me in their community. Classic rock and country music go well together.
The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.
I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They’re just so brilliant because they breathe.
I’m big fan of soulful music – classic rock with a folk-ish twist.
I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.
The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye’s stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That’s reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That’s reminiscent of the Beatles.
As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-’80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz… all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
