Greg Gutfeld Quotes

When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.

I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

I fell in love with The Strokes when I was 20, and I'm 34 now and still listen to them religiously.

I have to say, I'm sort of always obsessed with Norah Jones. I just love her voice, but I don't really have an album - I have a playlist.

I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.

That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.

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.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

I'm a bit of a groupie.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

When 'Pale Fire' came out, that album was a big friend of mine. I've just always purely been a fan of El Perro del Mar.

The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in.

They're weird aren't they, Prince fans?

I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.

From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through.