American Music Quotes - Page 3

• I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more like my private thoughts that I never thought I would be able to articulate - I never thought I would be able to express publicly.

  David Toop

  African American, Listening, Records

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Stanley Clarke

  Hero, Rays, Unsung Hero

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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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• Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

  Patterson Hood

  Magazines, May, Lasts

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• Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.

  Stanley Crouch

  Art, Player, Ethnicity

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• The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

  Branford Marsalis

  Kids, America, People

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

  Mark Knopfler

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

  Alexandra Patsavas

  Great Change

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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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• 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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• American music culture is black culture.

  Yelawolf

  Black, Culture, Music Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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 don't think there is much American music.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Thinking, Usa

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

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Greatness, African American, Littles

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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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• I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.

  Joe Sample

  New York, Moving, Player

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