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American Music Quotes (page 2)

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa. Art Blakey
Harrison Birtwistle quote: "I don't think there is much American music."
I don't think there is much American music. Harrison Birtwistle
James Weldon Johnson quote: "It is from the blues that all that may be called American..."
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. James Weldon Johnson
Hilary Rosen quote: "Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they..."
Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more. Hilary Rosen
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. Todd Gitlin
Michael Tippett quote: "Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell..."
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. Michael Tippett
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music. Sonny Rollins
Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials? they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think? rather than letting you figure it out on your own," said Arkin, who has been acting since the 1960s and won the supporting actor Oscar for "Little Miss Sunshine." "Ben treats the audience like adults. He doesn't shove you into endless close-ups, and the music doesn't tell you what's going to happen next, which is something I hate in American movies. Alan Arkin
My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that. George Michael
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. Frederick Reines
You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake. Michael Tilson Thomas
I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population - about 25 million would be plenty - of pastoralists and prospectors (prospecting for truth), gathering once a year in the ruins of ancient, mysterious cities for great ceremonies of music, art, dance, poetry, joy, faith and renewal. That's my dream of the American future. Like most such dreams, it will probably come true. That is why I'm still an optimist. Edward Abbey
I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male. Kurt Cobain
Kristin Hersh quote: "If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they..."
If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys. Kristin Hersh
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? Billy Joel

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