Black Quote by 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

American music culture is black culture.

— Yelawolf

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

— Carlos Santana

There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time…

— Rhiannon Giddens

In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.

— Daniel Levitin

Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels…

— Garth Fagan

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

I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place…

— Derek Walcott

You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too,…

— Damian Marley

The music of the civil rights movement came from Black artists.

— Jasmine Crockett

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

— Miguel

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