Band Quote by Graham Coxon

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

We're obviously a London band, and British at heart.

— Ted Dwane

Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with our bands,…

— James Dean Bradfield

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the…

— Gerry Beckley

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in…

— Cee Lo Green

When we first started in Los Angeles, we thought of ourselves in our own delusional way as being a British band, even though we'd…

— Ron Mael

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

I love British bands.

— Taylor Momsen

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

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to…

— Jim Capaldi

I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

— Tommy Bolin

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

— Simon Taylor-Davis