British Bands Quotes

I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.

I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy metal - big, dumb rock music. There was a band called Diamond Head - they were basically the band that inspired Metallica. But I also liked bands like Saxon and Iron Maiden.

I grew up listening to a lot of Massive Attack and Portishead.

Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.

I used to love Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and the Human League.

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.

The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.

If you look in my CD case, you'll see it's Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, now I can't think of anyone else, but all that stuff.

Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them with Van Morrison was a big influence on me, too, as were The Stones; The Yardbirds, John Mayall, and the other British blues pioneers.

You look at the Blur comeback, it was so smooth - so smooth - compared to The Verve.

Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.

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 very good because that's very now.

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.