Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical…

It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just…

— Tupac Shakur

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially…

— Ice T

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

— Ted Cruz

I call my style Classic Americana Swag. I do my vibe, and I'll throw in a cool sneaker here or there, a pair of…

— Hasan Minhaj

In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

— Robbie Robertson

I’m wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it’s masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music’s great songwriters, and I…

— Todd Snider

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use…

— Don DeLillo

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never…

— K. D. Lang

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

— Jeff VanderMeer

It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they…

— Christopher Columbus

“I come home from work this evening there was a note in the frying pan said Fix Your Own Supper Babe I Run Off…

— John Prine

To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.

— Marty Stuart

I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana.

— Rhiannon Giddens

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…

— Robert Plant

I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No…

— Tyler Hilton