American public Quote by Barry Diller

Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause…

— Bobby Hatfield

I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

— Brandy Clark

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends…

— Beck

We're trying to do the thing you don't expect out of country music. Which is to say, 'Go see the world.'

— Brad Paisley

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

— Madame de Stael

American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.

— Jason Michael Berman

People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I…

— Johnny Otis

Look, I was only given a year or two to come up with tunes for this record, and when all but eight of them…

— Alan Gorrie

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

— Kurt Cobain

I see music as a lifetime affair.

— Rory Gallagher

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

— David Bowie

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

— Ronald Reagan