Black Quote by Hamilton Leithauser

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more…

— Chris Isaak

'Hairdresser Blues' was written when I was deep in a ten-year depression that I escaped shortly after recording that album. I don't like that…

— Hunx

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

— Styles P

A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy…

— Dawn Richard

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy…

— Steve Young

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that…

— Eminem

I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,'…

— Josh Turner

I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice…

— Nina Nesbitt

Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up…

— St. Lucia

I guess it was this over-riding feeling I wanted people to get from the album - a kind of positivity. On the one hand…

— Sarah Blasko

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

— Anonymous

This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt