Breakfast Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

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

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

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

— Kid Rock

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

— Miguel

When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be black enough. They didn't really know where to put me.…

— Neneh Cherry

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

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

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

— Gregg Allman

I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was…

— Moshe Kasher

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

— William Christopher Handy

My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered…

— Paul Weller

American music culture is black culture.

— Yelawolf