African American Music Quotes

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  Nací con la música dentro de mí. La música era una de mis partes. Como mis costillas, mis riñones, mi hígado, mi corazón. Como mi sangre. Era una fuerza que ya estaba dentro de mí cuando llegué a la escena. Era una necesidad para mí, como la comida o el agua.

  Ray Charles

  Inspiración, Inspiración, Música

  Ray Charles (2004). "Hermano Ray: La propia historia de Ray Charles"

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• No significa nada si no tiene ese swing.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspiración, Mean Girls, Música

  1965 Del trompetista Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', en Jazz Journal, dic.

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• African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.

  David Simon

  Loss, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• Nací con la música dentro de mí

  Ray Charles

  Vida musical, Música inspiradora, Músico

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). "Hermano Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story", p.11, Da Capo Press

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• What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export.

  David Simon

  New York, New Orleans, Cities

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

  Johnny Otis

  African American, Want, American Music

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• I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Greatness, African American, Littles

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• I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more like my private thoughts that I never thought I would be able to articulate - I never thought I would be able to express publicly.

  David Toop

  African American, Listening, Records

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  African American, Debate, Term

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.

  Joe Sample

  New York, Moving, Player

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