Black music Quote by Don Cornelius

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

We are - as artists, we are racialized through genre and called black - without being called black - through genre.

— Kelela

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

— Nina Simone

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history.

— Todd Boyd

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

— Johnny Otis

You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.

— BJ the Chicago Kid

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill

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

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

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as…

— Quincy Jones

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

— Miguel