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
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. — James Weldon Johnson 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
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson 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
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
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
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
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
African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth… — David Simon 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
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience,… — Iggy Pop 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
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
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
My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats… — Ian McLagan Copy Share Image
Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys… — Nas Copy Share Image
Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll. — Hozier Copy Share Image
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music. — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music.… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never set out now to get a Grammy, or get an American Music Award, but it still is nice to be… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
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
