Americana Quotes

• 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

  Fighting, Thinking, Cowboy

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• 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

  Independence, Culture, Use

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Sting

  Fun, Kitsch, Super Bowl

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

  Arthur Godfrey

  Goal, Sound, Cracks

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• 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

  Country, Tired, Going Away

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• 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

  Moving, Looks, Pumps

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• 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

  Dirty, Naughty, Vintage

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Ipods, Band, Type

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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

  Robert Plant

  Boundaries, Term, Generic

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• It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.

  Christopher Columbus

  Fear, Believe, Heart

  "Letter to the Sovereigns" by Christopher Columbus, 1493.

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• I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Thinking, Stories, Singers

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• 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

  Unique, Rose, Riches

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.

  Will Sheff

  Real, Writing, Artist

  Source: www.spin.com

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• 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

  Country, America, Patriotism

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• 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

  Writing, Trying, Depth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  War, Order, Law

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• 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

  Television, Hamburgers, Used

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• 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

  Kids, Dark, Mississippi Delta

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• Audrey Auld is a great singer songwriter. She holds a unique place in contemporary Americana/Roots music. I believe that this uniqueness is largely due to the fact that she is Australian. This affords her a totally different attitude as an artist than traditional American contributors to this genre. Audrey is one of the most honest original artists I know.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Attitude, Believe, Artist

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Attention

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• 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

  Art, Robins, Gorgeous

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• It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?

  Alison Mosshart

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social movement might rise like a wave. It's harder to build any kind of wave now. Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That's the only thing that keeps me from believing that there's going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.

  Dar Williams

  Moving, Believe, Talking

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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

  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

  Stories, Gothic

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• It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people. We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it.

  Eustace Mullins

  Two, Philadelphia, People

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