I have noticed that these pop bands will play our…

When I first started, I had a mullet, and I was trying to play a hillbilly persona. While it was fun, it wasn't me.

— Matt Riddle

When we were growing up, Russell and I were into The Who, The Move, The Kinks, early Pink Floyd, really good tight pop bands.

— Ron Mael

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands…

— Corey Taylor

I have really got into watching the unsigned bands. They play mad venues like the Sugarmill in Stoke and all sorts of underground, grimy…

— Peter Crouch

To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.

— Hank Williams

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

— Hank Williams

Sometimes I forget that the label's been around so long that some of the bands they're singing now might be influenced by the first…

— Hutch Harris

The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and…

— Panda Bear

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

— Geezer Butler

I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely…

— Paul Weller

I lived in Italy for a number of years and I was really digging around trying to get my hands dirty, trying to learn…

— Mike Patton

When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market…

— Shane Filan

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts…

— Tom Stoppard

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given…

— Richard Branson

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

— Adam Anderson