That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
Trump does magic. Maybe it will be black magic sometime, but he's an amazing phenomenon.
Everything I do is alchemy. That's why I believe in magic. Not black magic, not the satanic magic that they practice in Hollywood and that the deep state practices and that the media practice. I believe in good magic, light magic, alchametic magic.
The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for.
People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.
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.
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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.
I prefer black music in general.
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
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.
One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.
There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes.
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.
Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.
I was attracted to black music for the same reason that I loved those old Irish ballads. Both were social statements of sorts, and both were indigenous to their respective cultures: Ireland, where my father had grown up, and towns like St. Louis along the Mississippi River, where I was growing up.
