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Canada can be tough for urban music. -- Melanie Fiona
I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations. -- Justin Timberlake
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Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that. -- Tinie Tempah
In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware. -- K-Maro
Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns. -- Fergie
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. -- Ruben Blades
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table. -- Fab Five Freddy
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one. -- Sxip Shirey
I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music. -- Kaskade
I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic. -- Juicy J
I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music. -- Taio Cruz
Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind. -- Cam Newton
One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.' -- Geoffrey Canada
Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things. -- Marvin Sapp
You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so that we could play music very loud any time of the day or night without getting complaints from the neighbours. -- Steve Winwood
My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice. -- Becky G
I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music. -- Oscar Hijuelos
I'm not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I'm passionate about. I'm finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, '90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I'm very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it's received well, and it has been so far. -- Ariana Grande
I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music. -- Keith Urban
I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does. -- Keith Urban
I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music. -- Keith Urban
I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible. -- Zoe Saldana
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one." -- Sxip Shirey
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own. -- Sam Hinton

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