American Music Quotes

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
Robert Plant

Music, Dark, American

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
Miriam Makeba

Life, Music, Long

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
Etta James

Music, Rock, Country

To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
Gary Allan

Life, Music, Heart

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
Ben Harper

Music, Diet, American

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
Carlisle Floyd

Music, American, Write

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
James Weldon Johnson

Music, Character, May

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
Ken Burns

Music, Important, Person

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
Taylor Hackford

Music, American, Once

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
Terri Windling

Music, American, Show

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
Carlisle Floyd

Music, American, Natural

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
Toni Braxton

Music, Successful, American

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
Boz Scaggs

Music, Women, American

I don't think there is much American music.
Harrison Birtwistle

Music, American

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
Burt Bacharach

Music, Time, School

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.
Eric Burdon

Life, Music, Mother

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
Branford Marsalis

Music, Problem, American

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
Mark Knopfler

Music, American, Playing

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.
John Deacon

Music, Before, Around

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
Dan Auerbach

Music, Rock, Past

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
William Christopher Handy

Music, True, America

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.
Glenn Hughes

Love, Music, Black

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
Michael Tilson Thomas

Music, Path, American

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.
Eric San

Music, Dad, Pretty

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
Alexis Korner

Music, Age, Thinking

Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.
Dierks Bentley

Music, Important, American

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
Cassandra Wilson

Music, American, Jazz

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.
Jonathan Cain

Music, Here, American

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.
Jonathan Cain

Music, Rock, Play

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.
Paul Oakenfold

Music, American, Sound

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