About Quote by James Righton

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

There was a lack of inspiration in London. There were a lot of dregs of the Libertines' movement, and we didn't want to do…

— James Righton

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies.…

— David Bowie

There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so to come…

— Russell Mael

We didn't want to be a po-faced, dull band - we wanted to have fun.

— James Righton

We actually were passionate about the British bands.

— Ron Mael

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

I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite…

— Charlie Benante

When we first started as a band we knew we could all sing and we took harmonies from Mayday Parade which doesn't seem like…

— Luke Hemmings

We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play…

— Lamont Dozier

Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do. It seemed…

— Jeff Rosenstock

We were an American band and no one cared about us in America.

— Alana Haim