America Quote by Jack Savoretti

The whole history of music has turned out to be something perfect. It's all come around. The music we did with Funkadelic and Parliament…

— George Clinton

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the…

— Quincy Jones

There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so…

— David Guetta

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop…

— Narada Michael Walden

Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and…

— Badshah

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when…

— Jess Row

“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the…

— bell hooks

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

— K'naan

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong.…

— Iggy Azalea

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

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

— Jack Bruce

I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was…

— Pedro Winter