American music Quote by Ned Sublette
“New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.”
![“The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history…” quote by Ned Sublette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a14/ned-sublette-30951_cuban_the-two-biggest-hits-by-machito-were-abo_1583675.jpg)
![“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 some of those pictures off the internet.” quote by Justin Timberlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ecf/justin-timberlake-1538_american-music_britney-and-i-wore-matching-denim-outfit_56055.jpg)
