Walter Becker Quotes

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

When I was growing up, my brother liked the Beatles, and I liked the Rolling Stones. I think if I were a girl, Keith would be the one I fancied.

I love all types of music... but pop is where my heart is at.

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting Grammys. So getting a Grammy nomination wasn't bad, it just wasn't meaningful.

I think you get a lot of influence from what your parents play around you. So I always loved country, R&B and rock.

A lot of people that only like country music, they're not fans of mine.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.