A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of. — Michael Bolton 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
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
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 don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music. — LeCrae 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
...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
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
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
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 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
“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
The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive. — Kelela 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 musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots. — Jazzie B 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
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
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
