Famous Musicians Quotes

I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before!

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.

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

I've interviewed everyone from Joe Strummer to Iggy Pop.

I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget this.

I named my son after Randy Rhoads - Rhoads Morello.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

I'd love to work with Snoop Dogg, Skrillex, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar.

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a real special player. Then I did a duet concert with Jim Hall at the 1990 Montreal Festival.

The only two jobs I ever had were with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash.

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.

I'd love to work with some of the people I've remixed for - Ed Sheeran or Chris Martin or The Weeknd. But it's not just big names like these guys that I want to collaborate with.

I would love to work with a Beatle: Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr.

Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.

Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dixieland jazz stars, really the best of them: Henry Red Allen, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Buster Bailey, Cutty Cutshall, Tyree Glenn, Zutty Singleton. These are all big names in the Dixieland world.

Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

Geddy Lee and I went to the same grade school. He moved away when we were still young, but I remember him like I do all my friends from back then. Then in 1982, Dave Thomas and I were approached to do a record as the McKenzie Brothers on Anthem Records, the same label that Rush was on.