Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more…

I'm not really up on what's new. I'm still listening to Run DMC twenty-five years later. In the same way that the baby-boomers in…

— Colson Whitehead

We got really excited by Motown and early '60s soul music that was fun sounding.

— Ryan Ross

I grew up listening to a lot of that stuff, Motown and Stooges. But also early rock-and-roll like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee…

— Alex Winston

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

— Joni Mitchell

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

— Ezra Furman

Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.

— Angus Young

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs.…

— Elvis Costello

With seven boys and one sister, there was always a lot of music in the house. A few of my brothers were playing instruments,…

— Angus Young

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

— Lemmy

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if…

— Peter Ackroyd

There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way, but nonetheless,…

— Justin Adams

It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.

— Nick Hornby

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

— Heinrich Heine

I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was…

— Yuna

I have a very awesome seat in the house every time I play. When the lights come up, and the sound turns on, I'm…

— Jason Mraz