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
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
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
“I heard in my own voice the tulmult of a young man playig a role, uneasily, repackaging black R&B music from America,… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also… — Quincy Jones 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
I was attracted to black music for the same reason that I loved those old Irish ballads. Both were social statements of… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it… — Jesse Stone Copy Share Image
When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he… — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
It's very hard to grow up in the African American church and for music to not be in your veins. It's just… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
...black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I… — Jimmy Lyons Copy Share Image
I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I want to remind people that black music is amazing. And there are all forms of it that we've forgotten, you know?… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
“Even the Dreamers, lost in their great reverie, feel it, for it’s Billie they reach for in sadness, and Isley they hum… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
We had some Stevie Wonder and Luther Vandross, but there's a lot of hip-hop and other black music that I just never… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Black musicians rhythmicized the contredanse, creating musical styles which evolved into the habanera (also known as the tango) and, later, ragtime, as… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began… — Dick Clark Copy Share Image
A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
