African american Quote by Ahmet Ertegun

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

— Ahmet Ertegun

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so…

— Trevor Rabin

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

— Maya Angelou

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great…

— Gilad Atzmon

I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life’s body…

— Rich Robinson

I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity brought to…

— Harry Belafonte

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified…

— Ted Nugent

Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to…

— Femi Kuti

I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

— Hozier

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

— Nelson Mandela

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did -…

— Bobby Short

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past…

— Susannah McCorkle