The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive. — Kelela 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
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
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
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider… — John Legend 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
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
...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
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
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
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 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
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
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
One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way… — Don Cornelius Copy Share Image
I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my… — Moshe Kasher 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'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
“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
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 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
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
'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
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
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 don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.” — Eminem Copy Share Image
I dont know anybody who can define it. Its like trying to define hip-hop. You cant just call it black music. Maybe… — Don Cornelius 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
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
If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that… — B. B. King 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 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
