Black music Quote by George C. Wolfe

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

— Miguel

Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

— Princess Nokia

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

Broadway musicals like 'Ain't Misbehavin',' 'Eubie' and 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' depict blacks having a light, wonderful time and that was just not so for…

— Yolanda King

Black musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots.

— Jazzie B

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't…

— Redd Foxx

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early…

— Robert Greene

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

— Robert Glasper

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man.…

— Bobby Keys

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were…

— Brian Setzer

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it…

— Toni Morrison

I think I was drawn to black culture by the same things that have been drawing the entire world to it since the days…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams