America Quote by Passenger

I've always been drawn back to the South, whether it's Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write…

— Don Felder

When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred years, or…

— Justin Vernon

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

I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song…

— Anonymous

My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from…

— Arlo Guthrie

Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I've been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of different artists.

— Chesney Hawkes

I definitely associate songs with the places that I've been.

— Khalid

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more…

— Iris DeMent

I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of…

— Jimmy Cliff

Songwriting has always been my number one no matter what, but I've loved country music - where I'm from, northeast Louisiana, it's a town…

— Lainey Wilson

I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you're from, because there's always been this big cloud over America saying you…

— Brandon Flowers

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies…

— Lari White