American music Quote by Harrison Birtwistle Download Open image “I don't think there is much American music.” — Harrison Birtwistle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare American music Music
You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so… — Johnny Otis Copy Share Image
The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters. — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it. — Jason Michael Berman Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I've always predominantly listened to American music, so when I've made records, I do always think 'It's a shame this isn't being pushed more… — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page,… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I’d probably pay good money to get… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep… — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when… — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I think that's… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
