Audience Quote by Rhiannon Giddens

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go…

— Archie Shepp

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

— Archie Shepp

We're not here as a black band playing white string band music. You know, we play stuff in the Appalachians, we play stuff in…

— Rhiannon Giddens

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

— Bob Dylan

In America sometimes I'll play to a full black audience of young people, they will be really getting into this super-aggressive guitar music. It's…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

— Bernie Mac

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

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a…

— Valerie Simpson

Black musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots.

— Jazzie B

American music culture is black culture.

— Yelawolf

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a…

— John Lennon

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio…

— Mary Travers