Band Influence Quotes

It really does help everyone when there are some big bands leading the charge.

A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.

I think it'd be fun to tour with Kiss just because Kiss is the reason I got into playing in a band.

Good Charlotte I look up to in so many ways.

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.

Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Newfound Glory. I didn't pay attention to country music anymore; I wanted to do more pop rock stuff.

I didn't start off as a bass player, and Guns was the first band I really, like, 'Oh, I'm gonna be a bass player. This is what I'm gonna do.' And I really dove into it head first.

Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

Nobody is playing music like this, like the Allman Brothers, and there's still a lot of fans out there, so that's what we're doing with Les Brers.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

In eighth grade, I wore a tie to school every day. I didn't own jeans. But it wasn't a granola thing, it was really more of an INXS thing.

Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production.

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

Not really interested in covering other bands songs to be honest.

We've never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.

I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.

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