English Music Quotes

I grew up learning carnatic music but I also enjoyed english music so I always thought I could marry the two words and we tried the idea once and it was a hit.

Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands.

Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

('Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is.

My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

If I do something related to English music, it will be definitely in the direction of R&B and pop.

There's a lot of young females doing R&B in England who are extremely talented and deserve more light on their stories.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

I always wanted to do my solo album in English, because I grew up listening to a lot of pop artists and English-based songs.

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

It's very natural for me to sing in English and have a tabla in an arrangement, to have hip-hop beats but sing in Tamil. It's very niche but I love doing it.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.

Why English music is being taught in some schools? The government should make arrangements to promote Indian classical music among students.

I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.

My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

English and world music were something that I had immense love for, and to get together with a fellow Indian and bring this sound and vibe to the world feels great.

I grew up listening to English music.

It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.

I am not sure if India is the right place to promote such music. I don't think there are still enough people who listen to English songs.

I've always loved English and loved English music and TV shows.