England Quote by Ella Mai

I think R&B is way bigger in America. It's not really that mainstream in the U.K.

— Ella Mai

It's amazing how English music manages to travel to America and obviously, American music in the U.K. is massive.

— Ben Howard

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

— Jamie Foxx

It's a difficult thing, breaking in America. A lot of bands who've been massive in the U.K. for years take much longer than that…

— Declan McKenna

England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible balance, not…

— Tod Machover

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

— Joe Elliott

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried…

— Katy B

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

— Mick Jagger

All genres of music have to evolve, grow, and expand in order to maintain. I don't think there's anything wrong with the growth of…

— Ne-Yo

I think that R&B is something that people need to hear.

— Sabrina Claudio

I feel like the U.K. is a better breeding ground for pop, partially because the radio play is more broad and open to new…

— Charli XCX

There's a lot of young females doing R&B in England who are extremely talented and deserve more light on their stories.

— Ella Mai