At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union.
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'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.
It's the music that brings us together.
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
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.
Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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