What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
I prefer black music in general.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on ...
American music culture is black culture.
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.
When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that...
I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.
