I came into music kind of late in life – until I was 17 I wanted to be a spy, wanted to be James Bond, so I had to learn rather quickly and practice longer than most people did to play catch up. Daryl Davis Read Quote
If you were to talk to somebody from Georgia you would understand what he’s saying, he wouldn’t sound like your next-door neighbor in Montana, but other than that it’s the same language, just with a few little different nuances. That’s just like country and blues, or blues and rock ‘n’ roll. They’re the same music with different accents. Daryl Davis Read Quote
You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn’t mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen. Daryl Davis Read Quote
Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at all. You know, there were ropes that went around the sitting sections with signs hanging that would say, ‘Sitting for white patrons only,’ or ‘Colored sitting only.’ Daryl Davis Read Quote
Every racist that I know – and I know a lot of racists – every racist that I know voted for Donald Trump. Daryl Davis Read Quote
There are plenty of people, including good friends of mine, who are not racist, and who voted for Trump. A lot of people wanted a change from what they were accustom to for the last decades… they wanted a change of the status quo, a changing of the guard. And they were willing to overlook his misogyny, his racist or bigoted comments. Daryl Davis Read Quote
1983 – Country music had made a resurgence in this country so I joined a country band. I was the only black guy in the band and consequently, usually the only black guy in many of the places where we played. Daryl Davis Read Quote
Music is my profession but learning more about racism on all sides of the tracks was my obsession. Daryl Davis Read Quote
