England Quote by Gordon Lightfoot

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about…

— Derek Walcott

It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love.

— Simon Taylor-Davis

When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family…

— Neil Sedaka

I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me.

— Michael Douglas

Well I've never been to England But I kind of like the Beatles.

— Hoyt Axton

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

— Patty Loveless

Not part of any London combination and you have to go a long way from London really to... to throw that feeling off. So,…

— Derek Taylor

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

— Kim Shattuck

In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.

— Kyle Gass

“I’ve always wanted to go to England. I just never thought it would be after I was dead, on a quest, on a bright…

— Rick Riordan

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I…

— T. S. Eliot