British Invasion Quotes:

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Badass, Eye, Soldier, Crusades, Normandy

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

- Steven Van Zandt

topic: Night, Guy, Important, Important Events, British Invasion

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

- Ronnie Wood

topic: White, Invasion, British, British Invasion

The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry.

- Jeff Barry

source: "Rock and Roll". "In The Groove", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

topic: Records, Invasion, Noise, British Invasion

In 1965, my father was just twirling the dial of the radio to find something that would make me go to sleep, and as soon as I heard rock and roll there was no stopping me. It was during the height of Beatlemania and the British invasion, but I gravitated toward the harder, heavier music going on then, you know, the early Rolling Stones, the good Rolling Stones, and Paul Revere and the Raiders, who don't get the credit they deserve for spearheading the American '60s garage sound.

- Jello Biafra

source: Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

topic: Father, Sleep, Rocks, Raiders, Going To Sleep

Those original, black, spirited, defiant, rebellious musical masters. Chuck Berry was one of the first masters of Les Paul's new electric guitar; he pretty much laid down the gauntlet, and I don't think anybody's ever beat him since. Way before the British Invasion, I was tuned into the black guys that created the British Invasion. Without Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and the Motown hits, there would be no Beatles.

- Ted Nugent

source: "Ted Nugent & Henry Rollins: American Flag/Black Flag". Elmore Magazine Interview, www.elmoremagazine.com. November 3, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Guitar, Water, Electric Guitar, Howlin Wolf

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

- Anna Sui

topic: Band, Invasion, Punk, British Invasion

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

- John Varvatos

source: "Hot Tracks: John Varvatos". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. October 2013.

topic: Bird, Band, Zeppelins, Kink, Stooges