Well, the thing is I always listened to American music way more than French music. — Jain Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. — Michael Eric Dyson 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
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift… — John Deacon 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 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 had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had… — Hozier Copy Share Image
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway.… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became… — Lulu 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
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
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
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
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
To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
I love old-time music, I love country music and I love the American music that we have to offer the world. And… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I’d probably pay good money… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in… — Gillian Welch 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
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 think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in… — James Taylor 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
My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. I quite like American music, like… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you… — Ben Mendelsohn 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
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
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
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the… — Eric Burdon 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
At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
As a child brought up in Paris, I dreamed of America, that lost world my parents had left behind - it was… — Alexandre Desplat 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
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
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