African music Quote by Ludwig Goransson

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have…

— Nelson Mandela

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

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

— St. Lucia

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have…

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Ludwig Goransson

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

— Maya Angelou

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 did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put…

— Baaba Maal

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

— Nelson Mandela

I think if some people know anything about African cinema it's something like the The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is such an awful,…

— Elvis Mitchell

My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered…

— Paul Weller

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

— Vernon Reid