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The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

~Alexandra Patsavas

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Influences at home, including classical music, were not all specifically jazz, but the family radio was always on... So there was always some connection to American culture, to American music.

~Anat Cohen

Topics: Always American American Culture American Music Classical Classical Music Connection Culture Family Home Including Influences Jazz Music Radio Some Specifically Were

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I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

~Ben Harper

Topics: American American Music Because Blues Diet Folk Gospel Grew Heavy Kind Music Those Traditional Up

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I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

~Ben Harper

Topics: American American Music Because Blind Blues Boy California Center Diet Family Folk Folk Music Gospel Grew Heavy Kind Music Owns Store Those Traditional Up

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I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

~Ben Mendelsohn

Topics: American American Movies American Music Because Culture Growing Growing Up Hits Listening Lot Movies Music Thing Think Time Up Watching Way You I Think

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I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

~Boz Scaggs

Topics: American American Music Conceptual Create Doing Hill Mary Music New Things Think Using Voices Women I Think

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The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

~Branford Marsalis

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I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

~Burt Bacharach

Topics: Absolutely American American Music Band Because Got Had High High School Keep Little Lousy Music No Talent Only Piano Playing School Started Students Taking Talent Terrible Thought Time Were Which

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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

~Carlisle Floyd

Topics: American American Music Appalachian Folk Know Music Never Obvious Out References Set Unless Would Write

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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

~Carlisle Floyd

Topics: Across American American Music Answer Come Comfort Diverse Kind Most Music Natural Particular Regional Satisfying Set Sounds Vernacular Which

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