Ann Beattie Quotes

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

Music is in my DNA!

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.

I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.

I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

I come from a musical kind of family.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.