Africa Quote by Joni Mitchell

Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive -…

— Mick Jagger

English music is white - it evades everything.

— Edward Elgar

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

— Ray Charles

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

— Walter J. Phillips

There's this kind of dialogue between African music and dance music, especially Moroccan stuff, because it's kind of ceremonial and has built-in repetition.

— Bonobo

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

— Ahmet Ertegun

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

— Gerald Jonas

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done…

— Jesse Stone

Drugs in a disco are great for white people because it allows them to feel more Puerto Rican while dancing.

— Dov Davidoff

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

— apl.de.ap