American music Quote by Wagner Moura

You start learning English in fifth grade. I was 12. But even before then I was listening to American music. My neighbor was a…

— Ivica Zubac

I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a…

— Ben Mendelsohn

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American…

— Emma Watson

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the…

— Andrew S. Gilbert

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams…

— Jamie Muir

Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz and musical…

— Heather Mac Donald

I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten or twelve…

— Jon Gordon

When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his…

— Miriam Makeba

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came…

— Evan Parker

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

— Dave Clark

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny…

— William J. Clinton

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt…

— Max Roach