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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. — Mose Allison

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black. — Samuel R. Delany

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 jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. — Robert Greene

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it. — Jack Black

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. — Richard M. Nixon

The rest of the world was black and white, But we were in screaming color — Taylor Swift

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof. — Ahmet Ertegun

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. — Jack White

I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good. — Banks

There is not enough faith in black music at a high level. — Estelle

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music' ... I make fight music, for high school kids. — Eminem

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone. — Berry Gordy

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African. — Paul Robeson

Where you are right now blast some music and forget. — Andy Biersack

There's more to life than listening to rock music. — Frank Black

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of. — Michael Bolton

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them — Dave Grohl

Music is not just the black dots on the white paper --
it's what happens when those black dots go into your heart, and come out again. — Phil Smith

American music culture is black culture. — Yelawolf

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly. — George Clarke

NEVER LIVE A LIE
BECAUSE
"THEY"
WON'T ACCEPT YOUR TRUTH! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit. — Ray Charles

A LIE IS LIKE A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD;
IT'S NOT SAFE TO LIVE IN — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community. — David Sanborn

The pianokeys are black and white
but they sound like a million colors in your mind — Maria Cristina Mena

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone

NEVER BE SO BUSY BEING THE LIGHT FOR OTHERS THAT YOU NEGLECT TO SHINE ON YOURSELF — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

This is black superhero music right here, baby! — Jay-Z

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy. — John Clellon Holmes

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it. — Sam Phillips

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. — Stanley Crouch

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

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music. — Robert Plant

Iris, if you were a melody ... piano melody. I used only the good notes. — Jack Black

What I do isn't black music; it's just my music. — Daryl Hall

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be. — Jack Black

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by. — Maya Angelou

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool. — Bonnie Raitt

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception. — Jimmy Carl Black

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side. — Bob Marley

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music. — Alber Elbaz

You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard," I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music. — Jim Butcher

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize. — Ketch Secor

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. — Jess Row

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio. — Kelis

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown. — Charli XCX

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. — Bill Kreutzmann

WHEN PEOPLE SHOW YOU THEIR TRUE COLORS,
DON'T GO COLOR BLIND — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America - that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved. — Redd Foxx

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it. — Glenn Hughes

I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul. — Rick Astley

I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater. — DMX

I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years. — Daryl Hall

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job. — Frank Black

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously. — Charley Pride

In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in. — India.Arie

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show. — Don Cornelius

It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music. — May Sarton

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience. — Heavy D

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

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. — B.B. King

House Music isn't black or white.
It just is.
It feels good & it feels right. — Frankie Knuckles

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm. — Bill Nighy

HOLDING ONTO HOPE
MAY MAKE YOU TIRED BUT IF YOU LET GO OF HOPE, THE FALL CAN SPIRITUALLY KILL YOU!
HOLD ON — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

Music lets you write your own checks. Don't ever forget that. — Jason Jack Miller

The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around. — Karen Russell

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

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music. — Charley Pride

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. — Smokey Robinson

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted. — Gail Ann Dorsey

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems, — Ron Paul

I AM GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF THE
BACKSTABBING
BECAUSE IT MADE ME
A STRAIGHT-SHOOTER! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

I judge people based solely on the quality of bands on the black concert t-shirts they wear. — Lou Brutus

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music. — Charley Pride

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

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris. — Ice Cube

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music. — Lee Konitz

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say ... except the big black one in the hall outside. — Paul McCartney

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. — Carlos Santana

Without music, my life would be black and white. — Robin Sharma

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. — Mike Stoller

Life without music can only be seen in black and white. It takes music to add the color. — Jessie Haas

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it. — James Bay

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music. — Thom Yorke

He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear; — Neil Gaiman

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. — Bill Medley

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 drums or something. — Dexter Gordon

MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken! — Lewis Black

For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes. — Juicy J