Africa Quote by Anonymous

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

— St. Lucia

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

— Angelique Kidjo

Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling.

— Ludwig Goransson

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

— Nelson Mandela

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have…

— Nelson Mandela

But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no…

— Beryl Markham

So much music in Africa was created for specific moments, written for rituals or for a funeral or for challenges, thousands of years ago,…

— Ludwig Goransson

There's this kind of dialogue between African music and dance music, especially Moroccan stuff, because it's kind of ceremonial and has built-in repetition.

— Bonobo

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have…

— Nelson Mandela

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

— Miriam Makeba

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the…

— Karen Blixen

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

— Mahalia Jackson