African american Quote by David Simon

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

In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.

— Daniel Levitin

Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as slaves. They…

— Randy Weston

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so…

— Johnny Otis

American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all…

— Rokia Traore

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

— Jess Row

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

— William Christopher Handy

Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo,…

— Nas

How did we lose our culture? Black people used to all do the same thing on Saturdays. We all watched "Soul Train" and "American…

— DJ Quik

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

— Maya Angelou

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