Complement Quote by Cat Stevens

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

— St. Lucia

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

One of the things I really like about West African guitar playing is the way it makes harmony linear. They're really spelling things out…

— David Longstreth

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

My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered…

— Paul Weller

Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to…

— Femi Kuti

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

— Jack Bruce

It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add any kind…

— Ludwig Goransson

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the…

— Isaac Hayes

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

— Nelson Mandela

As far as being an African artist, my inspiration has been the fact that I'm a part of the generation that will put Nigerian…

— Iceberg Slim

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