Ian McLagan Quotes

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

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.

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the 'Beatles' especially, and then the 'Rolling Stones' and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our 'nouvelle vague' in Britain, films that talk about real life.

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

There was so much great music around in the '60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

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.

There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

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

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

I'm not into one-hit wonders.

Ready, Steady, Go!' was the show of the '60s in London, where the Beatles, the Stones and the DC5, and every other major act started.

We are so blessed that we've had so many great songs that fans have turned into big hits for us.

I've never written to a band since the Beatles. Since the Dave Clark Five!

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

The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.

I began writing with Mike Pinder and eventually we went on to form a new band called The M&B, which later became The Moody Blues, what I would call a progressive blues band.

Four guys from England took us all by the hand.

I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.

I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I have come to the conclusion that I neither mean to die soon or to lose the match!

I regularly sell out more in England than I do in America.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.