American Music Quotes

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When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

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...

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

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

American music culture is black culture.

Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.

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

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

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

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

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

Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

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

I don't think there is much American music.

I never set out now to get a Grammy, or get an American Music Award, but it still is nice to be recognized.

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.