Art Quote by Pat Boone

For the most part, I've been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn't sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note…

— Justin Vernon

I've always been told I sound black.

— Colm Wilkinson

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

I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in…

— Ray Charles

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

— Banks

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music…

— Mose Allison

Ice T you f*ckin fossil. Youre so old, the first thing you bought with your record deal money was your freedom. On your first…

— Jeff Ross

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and…

— Anonymous

Sometimes when you sign to label as a black artist, they expect you to have a certain appeal. It's like they think they know…

— Van Hunt

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital…

— Brian Eno

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American…

— Glenn Hughes