Art Quote by Alan Rickman

“If the early English and LA punk bands shared a common sound, the New York bands just shared the same clubs. As such, while…

— Clinton Heylin

Back in the early 1980s when rappers couldn't perform in the fancy venues because the police were too racist and scared, it was the…

— JPEGMAFIA

That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's…

— Mick Jagger

“An essential difference between British and American punk bands can be found in their respective views of rock & roll history. The British bands…

— Clinton Heylin

All the best British groups were inspired by black American music. With The Beatles, it was Motown and the blues. With me, it was…

— Mick Hucknall

The Police, they were the guys that were like the gateway to the mainstream. In England, there was a very strong reggae movement that…

— Shaggy

I think we've always been a bit delusional and at the start we really did feel we were a cool, British-style band, but it…

— Russell Mael

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the…

— Graham Coxon

When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only…

— M.I.A

We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of…

— Rex Smith

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

— Pink

We actually were passionate about the British bands.

— Ron Mael