Black Music Quotes
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A lot of my success comes from black music. It’s something I’m very proud of (Black Music Quotes)
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres (Black Music Quotes)
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument (Black Music Quotes)
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph (Black Music Quotes)
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that (Black Music Quotes)
Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense (Black Music Quotes)
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music (Black Music Quotes)
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music (Black Music Quotes)
It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music (Black Music Quotes)
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men (Black Music Quotes)
I don’t do black music. I don’t do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music (Black Music Quotes)
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself (Black Music Quotes)
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base (Black Music Quotes)
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements (Black Music Quotes)
I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid (Black Music Quotes)
That’s because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to (Black Music Quotes)
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer (Black Music Quotes)
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did (Black Music Quotes)
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip hop, gospel and R and B pretty well, and it’s all a part of what we consider to be ‘black music.’ There is a natural synergy between the three (Black Music Quotes)
I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn’t listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King (Black Music Quotes)