“I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.” CountrySongClassTeachingListeningGrewDadGrew UpGuitarMy DadClassicKeithPlaying GuitarHaggard Author:Jake Owen
“Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.” PeoplePlaySongRocksListeningPaidRadioAdvertisingClassicPromotersClassic Rock Author:George Thorogood
“I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.” SometimesHomeAgeSchoolRocksCarCollegeListeningHigh SchoolRadioSpendingDrivingAlternativesClassicAway From HomeSoakingClassic RockGood CollegeAlternative Rock Author:Craig Finn
“I like listening to classic rock. I know that all Cafe Tacvba members have different influences and sometimes they show and other times they don't.” DifferentSometimesInfluenceListeningClassic Author:Joselo Rangel
“Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing your craft. That's how you learn how to do it. You don't learn how to write about jazz just from listening to jazz. You learn how to write by reading the great writers and how they worked, the great music critics.” WritingFeelingsReadingListeningCriticismJazzCriticsClassicGreat MusicGreat Writers Author:Gary Giddins
“Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.” Growing UpListeningKissingClassicPunkJimmyClashPunk RockVan Halen Author:Tad Kubler