Jade Bird Quotes

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff - Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even now, to this day, it's the music I listen to a lot of the time.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff - I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Patty Griffin, and Neil Young.

My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.

Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of rock music. That's when all the forces combined together-the talent that was available and the freedom for the artists. The industry hadn't become so gigantic.

I am going through a Neil Young phase. I also listen to a lot of alternative country, a band called Smog and Bonnie Prince Billy, which is very dark and twisted.

A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.

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

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

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'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

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.

The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard Led Zeppelin. They have the same kind of power.