Black and white Quote by Melvyn Bragg

I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success…

— Ashley Kahn

Black musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots.

— Jazzie B

White people stole jazz, rock n' roll, Will Smith, and heart disease.

— Tracy Morgan

Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find…

— Dick Clark

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go…

— Archie Shepp

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

It's hard to describe how bloody awful music was, how desperately bad it was, how our 1960s heroes had become boring and useless. Not…

— Tony Wilson

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

— Archie Shepp

Somewhere along the line, a concert became a variety show. It was no longer enough for four dudes to play together in front of…

— Shawn Amos

There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off…

— Noel Gallagher

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from…

— Daniel Ek

There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so to come…

— Russell Mael