Community Quote by Emmanuel Jal

Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a…

— Youssou N'Dour

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

— Fela Kuti

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

— Vernon Reid

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

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

— Ludwig Goransson

I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more…

— Chick Corea

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

— Angelique Kidjo

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

— Jack Bruce

Music is a natural platform where different cultures express their different way of living..

— KIKI

I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put…

— Baaba Maal

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

— Steve Porcaro

Classical music gives musicians a kick. But African music gives everyone a kick.

— Fela Kuti