American Quote by James Weldon Johnson

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

I'd go over to friends' houses and ask them to put on some Howlin' Wolf, and they wouldn't know what I was talking about.…

— Dusty Hill

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

— Chuck Berry

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

— John Ruskin

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

— Richard Meier

Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is a good…

— Miguel McKelvey

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

— George Edmund Street

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

— John Ruskin

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

— Willie Dixon

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

— Anonymous

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

— Willie Dixon

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams

“The Bluesis the roots of all American music.”

— Willie Dixon

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

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