England Quote by Lester Flatt

Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound…

— Earl Scruggs

That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.

— Johnny Ramone

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich…

— Roger McGuinn

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

— Peter Jackson

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

— James Blake

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

— Beth Gibbons

Coming from the U.K., you realize how quiet England is, and as soon as you get to America, it's really big and brash and…

— Ben Howard

We've just grown up and the sound has grown up with us.

— Luke Hemmings

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

— Brian May

There's this bubblegum pop thing which is prevalent now that we haven't had before. People's ears are slightly de-tuned; they've been exposed to this…

— Teddy Thompson

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

— Martin Cruz Smith

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

— John Banville