Americana Quote by Bill Frisell

I hate the word 'Americana,' so I won't use it. I don't even know what Americana is, exactly.

— Uncle Kracker

I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because…

— Brett Eldredge

When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound…

— Wiz Khalifa

I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's a lot…

— Lizz Wright

I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved…

— Sam Hunt

I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in…

— Will Sheff

I was an Englishman in New York playing a New Yorker... I had to be very careful with my accent.

— Adrian Lester

I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

— Gabriel Iglesias

I have been looking for a name for years and of course it sounds like it would be easy. Americana came along for the…

— Dale Watson

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

— Michelle Shocked

The cool thing about Americana is that the genre is accepting of all types of music.

— Amanda Shires