American music Quote by John Deacon

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

Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had…

— Don McLean

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

— Leonard Slatkin

I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful…

— Lulu

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

— Ben Howard

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which…

— Carlisle Floyd

There were eras of English music where people tried to rap in American accents and we lost our way.

— Kano

They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

— Lemmy Kilmister

There is so much good music from our scene in the U.K., and I'm happy I'm part of that movement. For a long time,…

— Skepta

Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.

— TyDi

Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war…

— Stephen Mallinder

I grew up listening to Oasis and The Verve; English music was huge in my house.

— Dean Lewis