Black music Quote by BJ the Chicago Kid

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

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

— Miguel

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

— Ahmet Ertegun

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

I dont know anybody who can define it. Its like trying to define hip-hop. You cant just call it black music. Maybe it will…

— Don Cornelius

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

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

— Jamie Foxx

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be…

— John Legend

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

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

I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.

— LeCrae

At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as there would…

— Kevin Young