Black Quote by Nina Simone

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

— Nina Simone

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 performed in high school for Black History Month at a talent show, but besides that I didn't have the resources to perform so…

— Saweetie

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great…

— Gilad Atzmon

Many people early on actually thought I was a black performer!

— B. J. Thomas

When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people…

— Paul Smoker

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music…

— Bobby McFerrin

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

— Bill Kreutzmann

I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real…

— Hozier

What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

— Skitch Henderson

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka