#american music

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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Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. ↗

— Robert Plant

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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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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. ↗

— John Deacon

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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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