Afros Quote by Alexis Korner Download Open image “Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.” — Alexis Korner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Afros Age Music Musical Thinking
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music. — Johnny Otis Copy Share
Growing up, my grandma was at home with us and there was a strong Afrobeat culture, she'd play all the riddims, and my music has a lot of that influence. — Raye Copy Share
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow -… — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all. — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina,… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I always thought he gave me that name because I have a kind of outgoing or sunny disposition. And in those days I was… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time outside of… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning,… — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've… — Tim Meadows Copy Share Image
Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels… — Garth Fagan Copy Share Image