American Music Quotes - Page 3

• I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.

  Marty Stuart

  Country, Mother, Spiritual

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• I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

  Christopher Moore

  Native American, Reflection, Fields

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• American music culture is black culture.

  Yelawolf

  Black, Culture, Music Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Johnny Otis

  African American, Want, African American Music

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• Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

  Stanley Clarke

  Hero, Rays, Unsung Hero

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

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Jazz, Form

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

  Alexis Korner

  Thinking, Musical, Age

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

  Carlisle Floyd

  Writing, Would Be, Appalachia

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

  Willie Dixon

  America, Foundation, Has Beens

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• Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

  Toni Braxton

  Kids, Successful, Awards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think there is much American music.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Thinking, Usa

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• I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

  Mark Knopfler

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

  Alexandra Patsavas

  Great Change

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• 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.

  Gillian Welch

  People, Southern, Able

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

  Paul Oakenfold

  Chinese, Sound, Pops

  "The Great Wall of Sound" by Paul Oakenfold, Tom Pattinson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2007.

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• The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

  Fredric Jameson

  Heart, Clothes, Culture

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• 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.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Diversity, Path, Recognition

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• New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.

  Ned Sublette

  Practice, Keys, New Orleans

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• I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Fans, Singers, Stuff

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• I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

  Ben Harper

  Boys, California, Kind

  "Give Till It’s Gone: A Conversation with Ben Harper". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.

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• 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?

  Queen Latifah

  Awards, Soul, Host

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• It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

  Miriam Makeba

  Play, Long, World

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• I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain.' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. ... I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.

  Ketch Secor

  Song, Strong, Believe

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

  Jerome Kern

  Berlin

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• 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.

  Boz Scaggs

  Thinking, Voice, Hills

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