Bittersweet Quote by Justin Adams

It's amazing, it's pumping, it's furious, it's anxious, it's happy and it's far more real than anything you'll ever experience in a Western city.…

— Robert Plant

I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more…

— Chick Corea

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

Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling.

— Ludwig Goransson

I've been to India, Jordan, South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Australia, Madagascar, Oman, The States, and a lot of countries in Europe, just to visit...…

— Jain

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

— Jack Bruce

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

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

— Robert Plant

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

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

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

— Angelique Kidjo

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

— Emmanuel Jal