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
I had an uncle who adored Al Green. He was white, but he only listened to black music. — Tricky 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
There was segregated unions, which was a real problem for me because - especially as I was working in the recording scene,… — Dr. John 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
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
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
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
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
“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'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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
