America Quote by Robert Glasper

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

Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

— Princess Nokia

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

American music culture is black culture.

— Yelawolf

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

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified…

— Ted Nugent

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

— Mary Landrieu

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

— William Christopher Handy

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

— Miguel

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early…

— Robert Greene

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that…

— Pete Seeger

Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said,…

— Henry Louis Gates