I was the first white British woman to reach No 1 on the R&B chart - the American black music chart. — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive. — Kelela Copy Share Image
I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years. — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres. — Miguel Copy Share Image
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be… — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be white. I don't have anything against my color. But I don't think color matters, either. Just like I… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm… — D'Angelo Copy Share Image
When I was in college, the Roots, the sui generis ensemble from Philadelphia encompassing all manner of black music, played a show… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from… — Eminem Copy Share Image
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe,… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Even though it's called Music Of Black Origin, it's not just music for black people. Music is for everybody. I think it's… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints… — Jesse Stone Copy Share Image
When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician.… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
“I recall one particular sunset. It lent an ember to my bicycle hell. Overhead, above the black music of telegraph wires, a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
I had an uncle who adored Al Green. He was white, but he only listened to black music. — Tricky Copy Share Image
You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed. — BJ the Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
“I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.” — Eminem Copy Share Image
Black musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots. — Jazzie B Copy Share Image
The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show. — Don Cornelius Copy Share Image
Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. — Lionel Hampton Copy Share Image
I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
