Quotes About Music

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.

We just dig Southern rock 'n' roll. It hasn't been represented well at all. So, we want to see the people in the South get their music out.

The Allman Brothers were definitely the group that opened up the door for the Southern groups.

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.

I didn't grow up on country and blues, I was just a kid listening to VH1 and then I realized I needed to expand my musical horizons. Now I have a deep appreciation for southern heritage music.

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically.

I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something.

I love Southern rock; it's because I grew up on it, and no matter where I am, I'll always be a Georgia girl.

We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious.

Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.

I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.

I'm a huge Travis Tritt fan. I'm a big Southern rock guy.

I've always used Southern rappers in epigraphs for my novels. For 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' I wanted to use Big K.R.I.T. - because I have so much respect for the lyrical depth of their music.

It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow - I started learning melodies.

I knew that I wanted to create a restaurant like Hard Rock Cafe or Planet Hollywood that celebrated not just music or Hollywood, but who we were as people of color, as Caribbean, African, Cajun and Southern people.

We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't a Southern band.

I don't travel that much with my band Los Pacaminos as it's quite a big crowd, but we got invited down to southern Italy once.

The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.

The fact is, you can't have Southern friends without eventually wanting to sing with them, and without eventually learning that the only way to sing with them is to make your peace with country music.

I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel fan.

Miami has grown into one of the biggest Southern places next to Atlanta when it comes down to music. It just grew out of nowhere.