American music Quote by Hozier

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and…

— Elton John

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

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

— Charley Pride

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the…

— Miriam Makeba

My music is roots music: it's a combination of growing up on the coast and mucking around with wood and wooden tones and sounds,…

— Xavier Rudd

I kind of have found my identity through the music, through the roots music of North Carolina, and kind of realized that that's my…

— Rhiannon Giddens

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

— Ray Charles

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll…

— Al Kooper

I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country…

— Penn Jillette

I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American…

— Ian Anderson

African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the…

— David Simon

I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from. I feel…

— Katy Perry

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

— Laura Allen

Well, I've always said that country music has always shared a very unique relationship with gospel music - the hooting and hollering, you know,…

— Marty Stuart

I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.

— Masego