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'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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
“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
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
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
I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music. — LeCrae 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
