Albums Quote by Caleb Followill

We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't…

— Dusty Hill

The tradition of the South is not urban... I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did…

— Harper Lee

When we first started in Los Angeles, we thought of ourselves in our own delusional way as being a British band, even though we'd…

— Ron Mael

Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had…

— Don McLean

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to…

— Alan Arkin

I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that.…

— William Gibson

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

— Sally Mann

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you…

— Karen Carpenter

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all…

— Dennis DeYoung

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from…

— Michael Stipe

We just weren't a hip band. I mean we recorded our second album in Bath at a time when everyone else was recording in…

— Curt Smith