College Quote by Jackson Browne

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

— John Shelton Reed

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz,…

— Jim Sullivan

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came…

— Evan Parker

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

— Martina McBride

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

— Paz de la Huerta

From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely…

— Ed Kowalczyk

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

— Dave Grohl

We were teens in the Eighties, and that's the kind of music that we all grew up on. When you're in those really formative…

— Tony Kanal

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

— Bing Crosby

I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in society in…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

“Popular music is not history, but it can be read historically, dialogically, and symptomatically to produce valuable evidence about change over time. Popular music…

— George Lipsitz

When we started, there were no other distractions like the Internet and video games, so music was central to young people's lives.

— Dennis DeYoung