British Music Quotes

• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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

  David Bowie

  Graduation, Travel, Promise

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

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

  David Bowie

  Glam Rock, Life And Death, Music And Life

  Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

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

  Leonard Slatkin

  Long, Next, British

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

  John Lennon

  Music, Listening, Shadow

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Hype

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• 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

  Successful, Black, Trying

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• 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

  Memories, Inspiration, Brass Bands

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• 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.

  Italo Zucchelli

  Fashion, Italian, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Guy, Tears, Typical

  Source: thequietus.com

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