![]() “Experience is a great teacher.”- John Legend It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.”- Aretha Franklin It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. “Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. “I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that’s what connects you with the world. “Musicians don’t retire they stop when there’s no more music in them.”- Louis Armstrong “The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.”- B.B. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.” – Ray Charles It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. It was part of every day life, as automatic as breathing.” – Nina Simone “Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. ” – Lauryn Hill READ MORE: Heroic Child To Receive Commendation For Alerting Family To A Fire In His Home “Tomorrow is always another day to make things right. To pay homage this month, we look at not the lyrics that have touched our lives, but the words artists have spoken. Black Music Month honors the past, present and future musicians and producers in the industry. On June 7, 1979, then President Jimmy Carter declared that June would be the month of black music.
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