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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

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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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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. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

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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's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

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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

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We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay. ↗

— Jonathan Cain

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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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If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to. ↗

— Eric San

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