Warren Zevon Quotes

I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis - I love all that stuff.

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

I love old school rock and roll.

I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis - all them people.

Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan.

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

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.

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

I love '80s rock music. I was fascinated with Stevie Nicks when I was growing up.

I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters.