Robert Plant Quotes

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.

The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a genre. It feels very limiting.

When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.

I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

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

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

I have quite an eclectic taste in music. I like Angus & Julia Stone; they are an Australian brother/sister duo. I like Adele. She is phenomenal.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.

I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I love a lot of the '70s musicians, like Bonnie Raitt. And I love Sheryl Crow. But probably my favorite musician is a woman by the name of Schuyler Fisk.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre, but it still sounds like me.

To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.

I love polished pop music, but stuff like Neil Young's Crazy Horse vibe or Waylon Jennings, that stuff is raw and real.