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If you're doing black music, you should have a core understanding of where that comes from, and the fundamentals - so you're not some bozo thinking you're doing something new.

— Anderson Paak

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Miguel

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

— John Legend

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

— Estelle

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

— Toyin Odutola

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

— Roy Ayers

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

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

— Alexis Korner

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

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

— Archie Shepp

✗Opposing Perspectives

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