African Music Quotes
Collection of top 36 famous quotes about African Music
African Music Quotes & Sayings
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
— Mahalia Jackson
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
— Mary Landrieu
In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.
— Paul Robeson
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.
— Nelson Mandela
I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
— Serj Tankian
Winning is not everything it is the only thing
— Vince Lombardi
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
— Jack Bruce
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.
— Dexter Gordon
You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.
— Dan Chaon
I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
— Ahmet Ertegun
What's really good is African drum music.
— Fiona Apple
We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
— Christian Scott
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
— Cassandra Wilson
Life is a dramatic late night dream.
— Debasish Mridha
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
— Cassandra Wilson
You cannot sing African music in proper English
— Fela Kuti
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
— Joseph Campbell
The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.
— Li Keqiang
He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.
— Spike Lee
I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.
— Bill Maris
Dark with excessive bright.
— John Milton
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
— Kiran Ahluwalia
