Band Quote by Kamasi Washington

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things…

— Mose Allison

I saw the Abba musical, and I loved it, but my music was a little bit different, a little more black.

— Frank Farian

I've been in the game a long time. I've done all sorts of different types of music. From mob music to the G-Funk era.

— E-40

I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever…

— Jez Williams

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

— David Sanborn

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college…

— E-40

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

— Robert Plant

I had a band called Infectious Grooves back in the Nineties. That music was really a mixture of styles, and we had some stuff…

— Robert Trujillo

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career,…

— Obie Trice

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

— Patrick Stump

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

— Henry Rollins

James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And he always…

— Charles Bradley