American music Quote by Jerome Kern

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

— Jerome Kern

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was…

— Jerry Leiber

I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived… His songs are…

— George Gershwin

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

— Hilary Rosen

Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war…

— Stephen Mallinder

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European…

— Sonny Rollins

I don't think there is much American music.

— Harrison Birtwistle

With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of America, the…

— Steve Erickson

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

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

— John Cale

American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things.

— Rhiannon Giddens

As a child brought up in Paris, I dreamed of America, that lost world my parents had left behind - it was in my…

— Alexandre Desplat