Quotes About American

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...

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

I play American and World music, Texas style.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

I'm interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command.

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.