America Quote by Richard Carpenter

I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set…

— M. Ward

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like…

— Eric Carmen

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from…

— Kevin Ayers

America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these things, and…

— Felix Buxton

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

— Isaac Hanson

People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.

— Curt Smith

The point of teaming up with American musicians was that there was no better way than that of music to let people from both…

— Atif Aslam

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

— Martin Amis

We just thought that bands from the U.S. in general were just really boring, and they didn't represent what we felt pop music should…

— Ron Mael

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

— Isaac Brock

The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.

— Marty Stuart