#american music

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

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

— Harrison Birtwistle

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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. ↗

— Jonathan Cain

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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

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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

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

— Mark Knopfler

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

— Alexis Korner

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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

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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. ↗

— Terri Windling

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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

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