#american music

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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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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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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