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
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
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
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
English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring. — Labrinth 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 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
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
People like to compartmentalise music, especially African-American music, but it's really one thing. One very wide thing. I mean, it's like all… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I've always predominantly listened to American music, so when I've made records, I do always think 'It's a shame this isn't being… — Jack Savoretti 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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and… — George Ezra 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
American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance. — Juan Gabriel 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
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
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 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
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 think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. — William Christopher Handy 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
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
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
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. — 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
I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music. — Wynton Marsalis 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
