Air Quote by Dave Clark

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

— Dinaw Mengestu

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

— Dave Clark

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent…

— Gregg Sulkin

I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through.

— Kaya Scodelario

I played American football, but I did my best work with baseball.

— Steve Miller

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

— Chita Rivera

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be…

— Curt Smith

People ask me if I'm influenced by British music, and I suppose I grew up listening to mostly British music - from new wave…

— Chino Moreno

We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.

— David Bryan

Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made a spectacular…

— Robert Hilburn

I don't know any American rock bands.

— Rick Nielsen

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

— Bill Bailey