Quotes About Heritage

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

The southerner talks music.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.