Change Quote by David Olusoga

Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good.

— Simon Price

The reason I did the name change is simple. I wrote a bunch of autobiographical material and I was really enjoying myself doing it,…

— John Wesley Harding

We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue…

— John Corabi

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

— Roland Orzabal

Bristol is known for having quite a good success rate of music - Massive Attack and Portishead, that drum and bass, dance music scene.…

— Jacob Anderson

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

— Jimmy Rushing

For me, the dilemma is I love Bristol, but you can only do that for so long and not get it back. It's been…

— Dakota Meyer

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it…

— Lionel Richie

There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of that. Maybe…

— Craig Finn

In changing times, we should all lend our support to the independent retailers. Without independent retailers, many of the biggest names in music would…

— Gorilla Zoe

There has not been enough clarity over the years in terms of who did what in Boney M but fortunately Frank Farian has since…

— Liz Mitchell

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

— Crystal Gayle