Quotes of: American-music Keyword

American music culture is black culture.

Yelawolf

I don't think there is much American music.

Harrison Birtwistle

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

Mark Knopfler

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Brad Paisley

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

John Deacon

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

Eric Burdon

The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

Alexandra Patsavas

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

Jonathan Cain

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

Cassandra Wilson

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

James Weldon Johnson

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

William Christopher Handy

Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it in the way they did. It really is an American form of music in the sense that it was nurtured here. So it belongs ...

Greg Lake

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Diane Paulus

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

Terri Windling

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

Sonny Rollins

Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

Florence Welch

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

Wynton Marsalis

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

Laura Benanti

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

Hilary Rosen

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

Lonnie Donegan