Music Knowledge Quotes

You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.

My daughter is 15. None of her friends know who the hell Chris Rea is, but they know that song - as soon as it comes on, they start singing it. I've played with everyone from Status Quo to Talk Talk, but nothing impresses them as much as the fact that I play on 'Driving Home for Christmas.'

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.

I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.

I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

Rap is the only super-current music. If you're into reggae or dancehall, and you don't know Bob Marley, then you don't really know what you're listening to. But if you're listening to rap, and you're 15, you're like, 'Grandmaster Flash? Who's that? Public Enemy? Yeah, my dad told me about them once.' And that's just how it is.

I am pretty well versed in the knowledge of music.

I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would listen to Juvenile or Lil Wayne. It's just that I'm a big fan of music. I'm a student of music. And I just want to learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

You know, many people do not know that I am so immersed when it comes to music. I have such a huge knowledge of music. I like my songs, I like my melodies, my harmonies, you know.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.

By the age of 15, I knew over 40 Hank Williams songs.

Musicians always respected me because they knew I'm a huge music lover and I know what I'm talking about.

On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.