Anthony Fantano Quotes

I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.

We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.

I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist.

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.

On its self-titled debut, Happy Birthday flirts with several flavors of love, and 'Girls FM' is where taste gets confusing.

I like hip-hop and rock music.

I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

I am a big David Bowie fan.

Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass.

I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...

Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band. I saw them on their first ever tour, at Birmingham Town Hall. They just blew me away.

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.

This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

George Jones and I happen to share the same birthday. The first and only time I met him (which I believe was at the Opry if my memory serves me), I told him that. His response, 'You must be trouble.' Takes one to know one, I am so proud to say. George, his music and his mischievous trouble, will all be missed. He is a country legend.

Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.