Black Music Quotes - Page 2

• I'm proud to be white. I don't have anything against my color. But I don't think color matters, either. Just like I feel it doesn't matter that I'm a white dude doin' black music.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Thinking, Color, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  Iggy Pop

  Artist, White, Black

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

  Daryl Hall

  Black

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2007.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

  Steven Van Zandt

  Real, Kids, Rocks

  20 Copy quote

• Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

  Stanley Crouch

  Music, Rap, Rocks

  13 Copy quote

• The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

  Robin Gibb

  Soul, Black, Style

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Kids, White, People

  "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Black, Would Be, Unfaithful

  4 Copy quote

• I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.

  James Taylor

  Growing Up, Thinking, Soul

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 17, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.

  Moshe Kasher

  Childhood, Black, Sound

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Greg Lake

  Black, Musical, Trying

  85 Copy quote