Beats Quote by Gerald Durrell

When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild.

— Jane Goodall

When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest…

— Walter de La Mare

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

It was only my second night in Africa, yet something had begun to grow inside me which I could not stop, as if my…

— Kuki Gallmann

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb…

— Max Beckmann

I was drawn to West Africa. I did listen to a bunch of different styles of African music, and there was something about the…

— 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

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses…

— Charles Dickens

I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time…

— Charles Simic

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

— Anonymous

I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds…

— Timothy Morton