Quotes About America

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

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.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.