Beats Quote by Warren Jeffs

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

The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with.…

— Paul Goodman

I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.

— LeCrae

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

— Michael Bolton

That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music…

— Joe Bonamassa

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

— Tinie Tempah

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

Music is my profession but learning more about racism on all sides of the tracks was my obsession.

— Daryl Davis

When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music... of learning…

— Mick Hucknall

Since when did race have anything to do with the music anyone should listen to? We are all human and we all feel. Music…

— Kayla Hawman

There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on the guitar!

— Andrew Wyatt

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

— Lenny Kravitz