Bryan Quote by Justin Adams

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

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

— Miriam Makeba

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

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

— Ludwig Goransson

Growing up in the Libya of the 1970s, I remember the prevalence of local bands who were as much influenced by Arabic musical traditions…

— Hisham Matar

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

— Angelique Kidjo

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

— Steve Porcaro

Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains, and together…

— Justin Adams

Moving to Dubai at age 9 and then the Congo, they were two completely opposite countries. But that brought me to music and taught…

— Jain

Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it. But my African roots brought me this music. In every African…

— Stromae

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