America Quote by Marty Stuart

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

— Steve Erickson

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

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it…

— Lamar Alexander

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular…

— Linda Ronstadt

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening…

— Immortal Technique

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which…

— Carlisle Floyd

Country Music: The Spirit of America.

— Alan Jackson

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

— Carlisle Floyd

Country music has the great stories.

— Etta James

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a…

— Jackson Browne

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

— Brad Paisley