British Music Quotes:

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Food, Unrequited Love, Romantic Love, Jazz And Life, Music Life

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

- David Bowie

source: "Mourning David Bowie, Dead at 69" by Nicole Silverberg, www.gq.com. January 11, 2016.

topic: Graduation, Travel, Promise, Superhuman, British Music

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

- David Bowie

source: Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

topic: Glam Rock, Life And Death, Music And Life, Superhuman, Timeless Music

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

- Leonard Slatkin

topic: Long, Next, British, British Music

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

- John Lennon

topic: Music, Listening, Shadow, British Music

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

- Freddie Mercury

topic: Song, Writing, Mean, British Music

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

- Freddie Mercury

topic: Song, Writing, Hype, British Music

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 pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.

- Lulu

topic: Successful, Black, Trying, American Music, British Music

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.

- Michael Parkinson

topic: Memories, Inspiration, Brass Bands, Happy Memories, Brass

I have to admit, I am aware of my Latin roots now. In the past, people couldn't place me. They thought that I was Danish or English or French. They never got that I am Italian. I'm not typical, maybe because my visual education was very mixed. There was a lot of London in my aesthetic: The Face, i-D, British music, and a lot of British fashion . . . But I really enjoy this contrast. I can go from Lady Gaga to Brian Eno in a split second.

- Italo Zucchelli

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fashion, Latin, Italian, Danish, British Music

Everybody was in tears. You turned on the radio or the television, and it was nothing but Gainsbourg. With typical British music journalist disdain, I just figured it was a testament to how poor French pop was if there was this much fuss about a guy who had one hit record, 'Je T'Aime (Moi Non Plus)'.

- Sylvie Simmons

topic: Guy, Tears, Typical, British Music