Band Quote by Rhiannon Giddens

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

— Cornel West

We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire…

— Lee Ranaldo

American music culture is black culture.

— Yelawolf

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

Even though it's called Music Of Black Origin, it's not just music for black people. Music is for everybody. I think it's good that…

— Alesha Dixon

We don't sound like a Mississippi Delta band, but we play what we mean, and that's the spirit of the blues.

— John Popper

There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically…

— Kristoffer Rygg

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play…

— Daniel Johns

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

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

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

— Rhiannon Giddens

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