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I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and…

— Letta Mbulu

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'm playing deep African music.

— Fela Kuti

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

— Michael Anthony

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause…

— Quincy Jones

I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years…

— St. Lucia

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came…

— Henry Rollins

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

— Miriam Makeba

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

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

— St. Lucia

You cannot sing African music in proper English

— Fela Kuti

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

— Ziggy Marley