Beach Quote by Roy Wood

We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.

— Judith Durham

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

— Stephen Mallinder

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were…

— Brian Setzer

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like…

— Eric Carmen

I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many…

— David Sanborn

Back then we were young, we would just mash all forms of music together and come up with something.

— apl.de.ap

We didn't like the way that our 'Behind the Music' came out at all, to say the least, and so it made everybody kind…

— Gina Schock

We were so heavily influenced by The Replacements and by a lot of hard core bands like Bad Brains, not that we sounded like…

— John Rzeznik

Technology was changing just as we were getting started. You had these records by people like David Bowie and Talking Heads and Brian Eno…

— Curt Smith

I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and…

— Andrew Dost

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling…

— Todd Haynes