African music Quote by Ludwig Goransson

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 didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not…

— Squarepusher

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

— Angelique Kidjo

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

— Nicholas Meyer

I got books full of music.

— Ghostface Killah

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

— Miriam Makeba

I'm playing deep African music.

— Fela Kuti

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

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot…

— Kiran Ahluwalia

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

— Cassandra Wilson

I traveled for about a year and a half through the southern part of Europe, to Portugal, Spain, parts of Morocco, and then down…

— Melody Gardot

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