African Quote by Pete Seeger

In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.

— Daniel Levitin

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't…

— Redd Foxx

Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as slaves. They…

— Randy Weston

In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think…

— Tom Waits

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

— William Christopher Handy

American music culture is black culture.

— Yelawolf

What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters.

— Chet Faker

America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these things, and…

— Felix Buxton

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

— Maya Angelou

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

— Robert Glasper

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

— Johnny Otis

When I was a kid, pre-1994 was still apartheid, so we didn't get a lot the subversive music from the States or from the…

— St. Lucia