Black Quote by George Harrison

You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated…

— John Legend

"I'm Black". I think that's the best song I ever made in my whole life.

— Styles P

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

— David Crosby

I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some way, then…

— Dawn Angelique

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

— Dick Gregory

You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this…

— Ice T

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

— Eddy Grant

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a…

— Cab Calloway

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that…

— Paul Robeson

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

— James Weldon Johnson

The enemy can steal your song.

— Johnny Hunt

I'm not really going to defend anyone's lyrics.

— Dizzee Rascal