Top 30 Americana Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Americana Quotes from famous people such as Robert C. O’Brien, Jade Bird, Arthur Godfrey, Hasan Minhaj, Shia LaBeouf, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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America and the world have been great beneficiaries of the forward presence of the United States Navy around the globe since the end of World War II. The U.S. Navy has been a key foundation of this Pax Americana.
Robert C. O’Brien
If you write your own lyrics now, and those are the main focus in the EP… people tend to approach it as Americana, which is wild. That’s what leads people to it. But it’s just whatever people want; as long as they like the music.
Jade Bird
As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.
Arthur Godfrey
I call my style Classic Americana Swag. I do my vibe, and I’ll throw in a cool sneaker here or there, a pair of Js.
Hasan Minhaj
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
Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor of a singular vision. Which resonates with me.
Rodney Crowell
I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
Ted Cruz
For all the anti-Americanism around the world, people have this love of Americana.
Katty Kay
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
Being into comic books is definitely an Americana thing.
Lexi Alexander
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
There are always generic terms like ‘Americana’, but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
Robert Plant
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
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
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
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
Growing up, everybody would cross the border, even to just do grocery shopping. A lot of traditional American foods stuck with my parents and became part of my upbringing. This all had to do with the proximity to the border. We were an absolute mix of classic Americana, traditional Mexican, and Baja cuisine.
Marcela Valladolid
When I wrote my first serious novel, ‘Interior’, I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike’s, ‘The Coup’, which is set in Africa and will come as a delightful surprise to anyone who has only read his Americana.
Justin Cartwright
From country rock to Cajun, classic rock to Latin, and blues to Americana, I’ve had the pleasure of re-discovering the ‘jewels’ from my repertoire that are so well-liked.
Shakin’ Stevens
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three – so I try to write country songs. But really, all good music is just soul music.
Sturgill Simpson
There’s also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
Jeff Vandermeer
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
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
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.
John Oates
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
I’ve got a wife, two kids, a dog and a mini-van. Isn’t that disgusting? We’re talking Americana, man. Apple pie on the table and everything.
Dave Schultz
To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.
Marty Stuart
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
I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There’s still a very narrow definition of Americana.
Rhiannon Giddens