I think the United States is extremely important for…

I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

— Jenni Rivera

When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.

— Lee Unkrich

I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses…

— Willie Nelson

American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.

— Juan Gabriel

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish…

— Maya Angelou

I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based…

— Linda Ronstadt

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

— Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music.

— Ian Brown

The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to…

— Ry Cooder

It was something very beautiful because we all had that interest. We were very close to all of the different groups of the time…

— Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's…

— Jenni Rivera

My family is still in Los Angeles. We listened to all sorts of music: Mexican music, oldies, soul, disco and rock & roll. I…

— Hope Sandoval

I didn't know much about the Mexican gray wolf before January 2011, when we contributed a flight in our Pilatus PC12 to the effort…

— Joy Covey

The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa