African music Quote by Ludwig Goransson

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

— Ludwig Goransson

Classical music gives musicians a kick. But African music gives everyone a kick.

— Fela Kuti

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

— Jack Bruce

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

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

— Ludwig Goransson

It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add any kind…

— Ludwig Goransson

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

— St. Lucia

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

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

— Vernon Reid

Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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