Black Singers Quotes

#1. For the most part, I've been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn't sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And The Blowfish.

Justin Vernon

#2. My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

Bill Kreutzmann

#3. Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.

John Lennon

#4. Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

Ben E. King

#5. You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

George Lucas

#6. Being a blues singer is like being black two times.

B.B. King

#7. I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any.

Darlene Love

#8. The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

Justin Vernon

#9. Everyone's going to have a better time if I'm not confused on stage about who I am.

Martina Sorbara

#10. The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

Guy Johnson

#11. At my age, one must ration one's excitement

Julian Fellowes

#12. I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

Tupac Shakur

#13. It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).

Maya Angelou

#14. At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

Victor Hugo

#15. If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear

Kobe Bryant

#16. It's just another war. If they weren't fighting one another, they'd find others to attack. It's what we do. Vengeance, honor, riches, religion - the reasons all just produce the same result.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.

Darlene Love

#18. You look like a diabetic strip club owner.

Jim Norton

#19. People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

Ahmet Ertegun