#black music

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

— Stanley Crouch

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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

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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. ↗

— Boris Vian

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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black. ↗

— Jack White

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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

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