#american music

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

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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

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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. ↗

— Ken Burns

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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

— Toni Braxton

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