Calypso Quote by Randy Weston

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

— Simon Van Booy

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

— Olga Kurylenko

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 terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think…

— Tom Waits

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture…

— George Crumb

The music was always the thing that has been in our world.

— Taylor Momsen

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

— Dave Grohl

Music has the strongest ability to bring back the past because of the memories we attach to certain songs.

— Ritu Ghatourey

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that…

— Pete Seeger

Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.

— Daniel Levitin

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

When I was a kid, pre-1994 was still apartheid, so we didn't get a lot the subversive music from the States or from the…

— St. Lucia