Rob Sheffield Quotes

One of the reasons I wanted a sax in the band was that I loved Fats Domino's 'Blueberry Hill.'

I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.

I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. I quite like American music, like The Fray, I'm a massive fan of them, and The Killers.

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

'Proud Mary' was the best song for me to perform because it was so much fun.

I like the Carpenters and Elvis.

Anybody who has ever played in bars has played 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself.' It's a monumental piece of rock & roll. It makes you feel exactly like rock & roll is supposed to make you feel.

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but an organ and a saxophone.

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

I think the '60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles, of The Stones, and then later on The Who and Zeppelin. But at one point in the '70s, it just kind of became... mellow.

The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'

'I Think We're Alone Now' is one of the all-time great songs.

Ooh Poo Pah Doo' was a monster song.