Beatles Quote by Princess Nokia

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

— Ray Manzarek

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

— Miguel

Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the first time…

— Daryl Davis

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

Originally, what we call rock 'n' roll was nothing more than an attempt of very bad white performers to sound like black rhythm-and-blues performers.…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

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

— Robert Glasper

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it…

— Toni Morrison

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

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

Rock 'n' roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking on the…

— Steve Miller

When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he was singing…

— Ato Essandoh

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people…

— John Legend