Country Quote by Cindy Hyde-Smith

New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice…

— Ned Sublette

In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.

— Marty Stuart

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note…

— Robbie Robertson

I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to…

— Steve Young

We don't sound like a Mississippi Delta band, but we play what we mean, and that's the spirit of the blues.

— John Popper

We just dig Southern rock 'n' roll. It hasn't been represented well at all. So, we want to see the people in the South…

— Ronnie Van Zant

I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.

— Marty Stuart

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of…

— Wendell Pierce

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues…

— Robert Plant

Music is part of our culture.

— Mohit Chauhan

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi,…

— Rhymefest

Though we have our own native flavour for each state or country, music has no language.

— Devi Sri Prasad