Black Quote by Ned Sublette

Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it…

— Curt Sachs

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which…

— Rachel Kushner

It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add any kind…

— Ludwig Goransson

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the…

— Ruben Blades

So much music in Africa was created for specific moments, written for rituals or for a funeral or for challenges, thousands of years ago,…

— Ludwig Goransson

With Chic, Nile took disco-funk music, which was a quintessentially underground, African-American style in black clubs and gay club and made it mainstream in…

— Jack Savoretti

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

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

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an…

— Joni Mitchell

“There is a storytelling element in there. The tango form is a little like the blues in that you have a kind of structure.…

— Alan Lee

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

— Miguel

There's this kind of dialogue between African music and dance music, especially Moroccan stuff, because it's kind of ceremonial and has built-in repetition.

— Bonobo