American music Quote by Mark Knopfler Download Open image “I was into playing American music, especially the blues.” — Mark Knopfler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare American music Music
I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up on country and blues, I was just a kid listening to VH1 and then I realized I needed to expand… — Julien Baker 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 of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. — Robert Plant Copy Share
The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
I developed a passion for American blues music, and I'd buy albums from a record shop in Soho, which I played on my Dansette… — David Essex Copy Share Image
After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds… — Ian Gillan Copy Share
I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry. You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die".… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them. — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
“ Telegraph Road A long time ago came a man on a track Walking thirty miles with a pack on his back And he… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones. — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
“I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
I left for the same reasons everyone leaves jobs that are no longer fulfilling their hopes and aspirations. I didn't see myself spending the… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
Last time I was sober, man I felt bad, Worst hangover that I ever had. It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night, Nicotine for… — Mark Knopfler 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