America Quote by Chesney Hawkes

I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music.

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm very torn. I write about living in England, but I spent so much time in Florida, and so many of my musical influences…

— Mark Morrison

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

— Rick Springfield

I was fortunate enough to have the success in America, and the fact that I write a lot of songs helps.

— Mark Morrison

I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was…

— Peter Max

I write songs based on things I see in the culture around me.

— Mark Foster

I grew up in Southern California. I played in rock bands out here, and I've been around pop music my whole life. I've been…

— Scott Borchetta

I always considered myself a songwriter, but I didn't move to New York with plans of doing that; it just sort of happened. Everyone…

— Kevin Morby

I work in the music world in a kind of very multi-faceted way. I work around the world, in different genres.

— Anoushka Shankar

I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of…

— Jimmy Cliff

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music…

— Virgil Thomson

My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.

— Leon Russell