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Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
— Dwight Yoakam
When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.
— Michael Sheen
Jazz is America's classical music.
— Billy Taylor
House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
— Avicii
When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.
— Zach Condon
My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S ... what singer doesn't have that dream?
— Katherine Jenkins
The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.
— St. Lucia
In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.
— Richie Gerber
I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.
— Charles Koppelman
Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
— Al Jarreau
No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.
— Isadora Duncan
I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.
— Paul Weller
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.
— John Clellon Holmes
In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.
— Antonin Dvorak
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
— Nina Simone
Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.
— TyDi
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
— William Christopher Handy
If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.
— George Russell
The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.
— Danny Brown
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
— Robert Duvall
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.
— Kelis
When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
— Nas
Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America - that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
— Redd Foxx
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
— Ruben Blades
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
— Jay-Z
America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
— Taylor Hawkins
Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.
— Ezra Koenig
Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.
— Ronald Reagan
The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
— T. S. Monk
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
— Ringo Starr
People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'
— Stan Freberg
In America, music is more tightly categorized.
— Ednita Nazario
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.
— Tiesto
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
— Ahmad Alaadeen
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
— Renee Fleming
Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.
— Graham Coxon
America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.
— Sonny Rollins
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
— William S. Burroughs
The scholarship on music and poetry in Mexico - and Latin America more generally - has yet to receive substantial historical attention.
— Stephen Neufeld
When I think about country music, I think about America.
— Johnny Cash
Country music belongs to America.
— Bill Monroe
If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
— Ice Cube
I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.
— Johnny Otis
The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
— Robbie Robertson
Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.
— Paul Stanley
The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.
— Mariah Carey
The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.
— Ted Nugent
I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.
— A-Trak
I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America
— Bing Crosby
I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.
— Kid Rock
Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.
— Thomas Bangalter
I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.
— Joanna Newsom
It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.
— Paul Oakenfold
Jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
— Anais Nin
Metal is still the biggest music now in America.
— Sebastian Bach