When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Being from Brazil, I missed out on a lot of American music, so I like to go back and check things out… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I… — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort… — Dan Auerbach 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
I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that… — John Renbourn 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
“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
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
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 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
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
I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It's amazing how English music manages to travel to America and obviously, American music in the U.K. is massive. — Ben Howard 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
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
English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring. — Labrinth Copy Share Image
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for… — Jason Michael Berman Copy Share Image
It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music. — B. B. King Copy Share Image
It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better… — Willie Dixon 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
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
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 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
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
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 call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on… — Jonathan Cain Copy Share Image
I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more… — David Toop Copy Share Image
