Quotes About Americana

#1. I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating.

Marina And The Diamonds

#2. I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

K.d. Lang

#3. I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No one really dug it. It was very Americana and had a lot of folk elements in it.

Tyler Hilton

#4. James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

Michael Nesmith

#5. I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

John Oates

#6. The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

Ted Cruz

#7. I'm wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it's masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music's great songwriters, and I hope this record gets the attention it deserves.

Todd Snider

#8. I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.

Clayton Moore

#9. When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff - I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Patty Griffin, and Neil Young.

Madi Diaz

#10. There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

Robert Plant

#11. I just love music, and I'm not as genre specific as most songwriters. A lot of my buddies just listen to country, or just Americana, or whatever their style is, and I just listen to everything.

Kevin Fowler

#12. There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

Jeff VanderMeer

#13. Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

Shia Labeouf

#14. When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

Mary Doria Russell

#15. I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.

Laura Bell Bundy

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

Bill Frisell

#17. I have been looking for a name for years and of course it sounds like it would be easy. Americana came along for the same reason. But to me Americana means Original music with prominent folk/rock influence. Ameripolitan is Original music with prominent roots influence.

Dale Watson

#18. Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

Robert Plant

#19. It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Don DeLillo

#20. While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

Al Sharpton

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

John Oates

#22. Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.

Karen Abbott

#23. And it is awful here, there is no other way to say it. But I believe that Detroit is America's city. It was the vanguard of our way up, just as it is the vanguard of our way down. And one hopes the vanguard of our way up again. Detroit is Pax Americana ... America's way of life was built here.

Charlie LeDuff

#24. I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

Joni Mitchell

#25. I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.

Wynton Marsalis

#26. Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

George Vecsey

#27. In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

Robbie Robertson

#28. I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

Neko Case

#29. I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times.

Shelby Lynne

#30. I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#31. As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

Arthur Godfrey

#32. You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East.

Cindy Sheehan

#33. The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

Bonnie Raitt

#34. I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.

George McGovern

#35. The debate over the inherent benefits of Pax Americana should have been settled long ago. But history only settles great debates for as long as people can remember the history.

Bret Stephens

#36. The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

Sting

#37. Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

Walt Whitman

#38. Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

Ben Fountain

#39. There's a land - oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back - and I will.

Robert Service

#40. [Attending the Sun Dance] There was a smattering of tourists, both serious and recreational. Professors of anthropology and ethnology. Writers of fact and other fiction. A family from Wisconsin pausing on their long, sacred pilgrimage to The Land of Disney.

James D. Doss

#41. All that is loathsome, drooping, or decayed is here.

Charles Dickens