House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love house music. I love all music.
My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles - I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.
American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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.
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.
Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music 'root music.'
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
Music comes from a place we don't know.
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.