Influences and Quotations
- The 1988 song "Sviđa mi se ova stvar" (I Like This Thing) has a guitar riff that was popular in the Los Lobos' song "La Bamba". Its lyrics are also set to the tune of the Beatles' tune "Twist and Shout".
- The guitar solo in "Ako, ako" is very similar to Magazine's "Shot by Both Sides" lead guitar line and chorus guitar line in Buzzcocks' song "Lipstick" as well.
- The 1989 hit single "Tuga ti i ja" (Sadness, You and I) has a beginning piano and guitar sample from Journey's song "Who's Crying Now".
- The 1991 hit single "Moje najmilije" (My Dearest) has a harmonica riff which was sampled from Supertramp. The song that it was sampled from is unknown.
- The band's name was derived from when Darko Jelčić brought a red apple to one of the band's meetings.
- On their unplugged concert in 1999, Crvena jabuka samples a guitar riff from Carlos Santana's song "Oye Como Va", and uses it during a break of the song "Ima nešto od srca do srca" (There is Something from Heart to Heart)
- The beginning riff from the song "Ti znaš" has an almost identical riff as U2's song "Bad".
- Their 1996 song "Deni" which is the B-side to "Sanjam te" starts with guitar notes similar to Deep Purple's song "Smoke on the Water".
- Many of their earlier songs are in the style of the music from the English band Dire Straits . One example is their hit song "Riznice sjecanja", which sounds almost identical to Straits' song "Why Worry"
- The song "Čuvaj Se" from their newest album entitled "Volim Te" shares some similarities with Coldplay's song "Viva La Vida".
- The song "Godinama" from their newest album entitled "Volim Te" is a remake of Queen's song "You Don't Fool Me".
- The song "Napiši jednu ljubavnu" has "The Godfather" theme based melody in around 1:40 mark.
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Famous quotes containing the words influences and/or quotations:
“Do not seek anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)