#americana

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#americana #called #culture #declaration #first

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#crime #dirty #feel #feels #gangster

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane. ↗

— Neko Case

#anybody #being #called #country #fine

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy. ↗

— Bill Frisell

#call #downtown #first #guy #i

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

#american #american music #americana #blues #chicago

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#corny #crack #goal #market #may

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#americana #away #bit #country #country music

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#americana #catching #discovered #hamburgers #i

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go. ↗