Available Quote by Archie Shepp

That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen…

— Smokey Robinson

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it…

— Toni Morrison

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

— Cornel West

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

— Michael Bolton

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

— Rhiannon Giddens

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 good that…

— Alesha Dixon

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

— Miguel

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African…

— Dexter Gordon

American music culture is black culture.

— Yelawolf

In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think…

— Tom Waits

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

— Barry White

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

— Archie Shepp