Civil rights Quote by Bernice Johnson Reagon

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

— Adam Lambert

I didn't really get sidetracked into being a singer. It was just something I started to do for fun in school, like singing the…

— Mya

The music of the civil rights movement came from Black artists.

— Jasmine Crockett

I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm…

— Jamila Woods

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter…

— Pete Seeger

You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown,…

— Geoffrey Canada

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

— Ahmet Ertegun

Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing…

— Jordin Sparks

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

— Q-Tip

Singing was a liberating experience for me.

— Meghana Raj

[Music] is the one thing that connects the dots in all kinds of ways. No matter how you were brought up, no matter what…

— Kenny Chesney

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as…

— Garth Greenwell