Quotes About Music

I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.

Someone at Hollywood Records said, 'Are you into Alanis Morissette?' I said 'Yeah, she sells 26 million albums, of course. It would be perverse if she works with me, but I don't think you can get her.' A week later they say she's coming down the studio.

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

If the Beastie Boys and the Beach Boys and Pet Shop Boys can stay boys, so can we.

I've never written a 'Revolver' or a 'Pet Sounds.'

I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

I've always played all the old songs. I'd go and see Peter Gabriel or Madonna and be surprised if they didn't play all the hits. People don't want to come and hear the B-sides.

Even though Peter Criss is a pretty simple player, he played with great feel and made the music get up and go.

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

My dad Peter, who was my roadie when I was starting out, had loads of confidence but couldn't sing.

You can scroll through my iTunes and I've got everything. I've got Ace Hood, Alt-J, Annie Lennox, Arctic Monkeys, Beanie Sigel, the Beatles, Beth Hart, Big Sean, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, Chief Keef, Coldplay, the Flaming Lips, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, OutKast, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, the Smiths, and the list goes on from there.

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.

I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.

I know it was all a bit of a sham. But I know that Mickey Dolenz sang. And Davy Jones sang. And Mike Nesmith sang. And Peter Tork did something.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me.

'Peter Pan,' I think, was a game-changer. That was the first song that really had some heartbeat to it... I think that's the song that got people's attention.

I always did have a kind of candle shining for Peter Green. I mean, he was my god.

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.