American music Quote by Violet Duke

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally…

— Steve Vai

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of…

— Timbaland

I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music.

— Wynton Marsalis

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit…

— Kent Haruf

I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I listen to everything. I sing country music, but I listen to different stuff.

— Kelsea Ballerini

My style has a lot to do with where I've been brought up. I've lived half my life in Puerto Rico and the other…

— Luis Fonsi

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

— Yanni

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes…

— Juanes

I write songs based on things I see in the culture around me.

— Mark Foster

I just love music, and I'm not as genre specific as most songwriters. A lot of my buddies just listen to country, or just…

— Kevin Fowler

I cherish our songs in both Japanese and English.

— Suzuka Nakamoto