To celebrate Black History Month, we have compiled a list of some of the most famous and inspirational music quotes from famous artist of our past and present.
Let's take a look at some of the most insightful and powerful words spoken by prominent African American musicians and singers:
1. "The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." - B.B. King
2. "Strivers achieve what dreamers believe." - Usher
3. "The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty." - Stevie Wonder
4. "I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great." -Ray Charles
5. "Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that." - James Brown
6. "If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about." - Aretha Franklin
7. "I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world." - Tupac
8. "In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first." - Jimi Hendrix
9. "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." - Josephine Baker
10. "It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it." - James Brown
11. "We all have our imperfections. But I'm human and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty." - Beyonce
12. "I'm not in control of these situations and I feel like to be upset or down about something I can't control is just being weak and wasting energy." - 50 Cent
13. "I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing." - Lionel Richie
14. "I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music." - Nat King Cole
I hope you've enjoyed these inspiring music quotes.
1. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby
2. "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such method is love." - Martin Luther King Jr.
3. "I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free." - Muhammed Ali
4. "Our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black, and white-and we're all precious in God's sight." - Jesse Jackson
5. "The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself-the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us-that's where it's at." - Jesse Owens
6. "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington
7. "I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment." - Malcolm X
8. "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history." - Morgan Freeman
9. "We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice." - Carter Woodson
10. "Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face." - Carol Moseley-Braun
11. "Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion." - William Lloyd Garrison
12. "Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy." - Gerda Lerner
13. "Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else? Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings." - Colin Powell
14. "The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up." - Jesse Jackson
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