Africa Quote by Isaac Hayes

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the…

— Isaac Hayes

I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because my parents…

— Jain

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

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

I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity brought to…

— Harry Belafonte

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 wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started…

— Marcus Samuelsson

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

— Miriam Makeba

I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I related to…

— Fantastic Negrito

I listened to birds and crickets, looking for the ways that rhythm appears most naturally in the world. I listened to the Smithsonian's field…

— Maggie Rogers

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the…

— Cat Stevens

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

— Mahalia Jackson