Classical music Quote by BBC African journalist

“Music is a universal sound that brings unity among others. No race, just marvelous sounds and good vibes.”

— John C. Okoro

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

— Archie Shepp

“In America, music was the first sphere of social interaction in which racial barriers were challenged and overturned. And the challenge went both ways:…

— Ted Gioia

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

— George Bernard Shaw

“I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.”

— Eminem

I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for…

— Panda Bear

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be…

— Dane DeHaan

Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white…

— Hilton Als

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

— Terry Bozzio

Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard,…

— George Antheil

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the…

— Moby