African music Quote by Little Richard

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when…

— Jess Row

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

— Erik Parker

My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this…

— Little Richard

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

— Lauryn Hill

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African…

— Dexter Gordon

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

— K'naan

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

As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a…

— Sylvia Robinson

Is hip hop, just a euphemism for a new religion the soul music for the slaves that the youth is missing.

— Kanye West

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the…

— Isaac Hayes

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

— Steve Porcaro