I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through…

I kind of have found my identity through the music, through the roots music of North Carolina, and kind of realized that that's my…

— Rhiannon Giddens

My music is roots music: it's a combination of growing up on the coast and mucking around with wood and wooden tones and sounds,…

— Xavier Rudd

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable,…

— Naomi Wolf

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.…

— William Shakespeare

One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how…

— Mandisa

I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a little bit…

— Kenna

I've always kept music alive in my life.

— Laura Nyro

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

— Charley Pride

I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

— Hozier

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

— Ray Charles

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can…

— Scotty Moore

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

— Will Oldham

It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really…

— Damian Marley

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

— Ziggy Marley

The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along…

— Jay Michaelson