African music Quote by Iceberg Slim

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their…

— Fela Kuti

One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like…

— Ice Prince

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

— St. Lucia

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

— Jack Bruce

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

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

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

— Paul Robeson

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

I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some…

— Burna Boy

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

Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional…

— Rokia Traore