#american music

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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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. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

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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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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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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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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 don't think there is much American music. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

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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 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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