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American music culture is black culture.
I don't think there is much American music.
The '60s were a time of great change in American music.
I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
Sun Studios was where so much of American music exploded from.
Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.
American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things.
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.
I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music.
We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.
Well, the thing is I always listened to American music way more than French music.
The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.
There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.
American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.
It's amazing how English music manages to travel to America and obviously, American music in the U.K. is massive.
At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union.
I think Marvin Gaye is one of the greatest American music icons. His 'What's Going On' is as fresh today as when he did it.
The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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 joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.
As a kid growing up in Sweden loving American music, I always dreamt of migrating here and working with brilliant artists like Donald Glover.
I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was my biggest inspiration.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the first time in American music history.
American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.
I love old-time music, I love country music and I love the American music that we have to offer the world. And any part of that is fine with me, as long as it's pure.
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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.
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.
My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. I quite like American music, like The Fray, I'm a massive fan of them, and The Killers.
I'm kind of glad that, over the years, K-pop has really been going into a much more global audience. Especially since I really am leaning towards pursuing the American music market.
We'd play the American bases and found all these wonderful records by Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke. Without American music, there would not have been a British Invasion.
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.
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.
You start learning English in fifth grade. I was 12. But even before then I was listening to American music. My neighbor was a really big hip-hop fan, so he taught me everything around hip-hop.
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.
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.