Africa Quote by Ludwig Goransson

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

— Vernon Reid

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

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

— Angelique Kidjo

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

— Fela Kuti

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

— Emmanuel Jal

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

— St. Lucia

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

— Miriam Makeba

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 was able to learn a new language - a new musical language is learning a new language, because it's so extremely different from…

— Ludwig Goransson

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they…

— Joanna Newsom

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

— Fela Kuti

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

— Robert Plant