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 Copy Share Image
The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics. — David Bryan Copy Share Image
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
As a child brought up in Paris, I dreamed of America, that lost world my parents had left behind - it was… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people,… — Jerome Kern Copy Share Image
Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an… — Bill Taylor Copy Share Image
I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed… — Rain Copy Share Image
Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people -… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. I quite like American music, like… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
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… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became… — Lulu Copy Share Image
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway.… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had… — Hozier Copy Share Image
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television,… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I love old-time music, I love country music and I love the American music that we have to offer the world. And… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I’d probably pay good money… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I… — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty… — Eric San Copy Share Image
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are… — Etta James Copy Share Image
We'd play the American bases and found all these wonderful records by Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke. Without American… — Dave Clark Copy Share Image
“It's called a gui-tar. It's used to perform American rural music. It's said to be especially popular in Texas," he told her.… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift… — John Deacon Copy Share Image
![“I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a…” quote by Ketch Secor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/216/ketch-secor-28477_american-music_i-enjoy-writing-songs-that-could-have-be_1676687.jpg)
![“Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a…” quote by Stanley Crouch](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9b0/stanley-crouch-16415_absolutes_above-all-else-benny-goodman-was-a-great_523097.jpg)
![“Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I’d probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.” quote by Justin Timberlake](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ecf/justin-timberlake-1538_american-music_britney-and-i-wore-matching-denim-outfit_56055.jpg)
