Humanity/music

Famous quotes containing the words humanity and/or music:

“Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)