It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music. — Paul Oakenfold Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Well, the thing is I always listened to American music way more than French music. — Jain Copy Share Image
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally… — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties,… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded.… — Joe Sample Copy Share Image
What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
It's amazing how English music manages to travel to America and obviously, American music in the U.K. is massive. — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices… — Boz Scaggs Copy Share Image
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
