Gotye Quotes

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.

For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.

Well, the first time I met The Beatles was through my former boyfriend, Klaus Voormann, who saw them one night when he was wandering around Hamburg and then he heard this beautiful sound of rock 'n' roll music.

When we were starting out as a band in New York, we played a concert at a small club early on and asked Lady Gaga to open for us. We were big fans, and she had the same kind of approach to music as we did: not taking everything so seriously and just having fun.

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, even when the content was antiwoman, antisexual, in a sense anti­human, the form encouraged my struggle for liberation.

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop came on the scene, it was the last legitimate creation of a new genre.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.