American music Quote by Robert Plant

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

I didn't grow up on country and blues, I was just a kid listening to VH1 and then I realized I needed to expand…

— Julien Baker

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of…

— Nick Cave

I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in…

— Will Sheff

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina,…

— James Taylor

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi,…

— Rhymefest

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

— Edgar Winter

In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.

— Marty Stuart

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

— Willie Dixon

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

— Edgar Winter

One thing that I love about country music, probably more so than any other culture - maybe the blues rivals it - there are…

— Marty Stuart

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson