80s Quote by Graham Coxon

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or…

— Graham Coxon

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

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

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English…

— John Deacon

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

— Tommy Bolin

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 have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

— Leonard Slatkin

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

— Ben Howard

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

I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes - it's obvious what they've…

— Tom Verlaine

It is a cliché about British bands going to America and being broken by the experience.

— Miki Berenyi