Challenges Quote by Ludwig Goransson

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

— Emmanuel Jal

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

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

— Ludwig Goransson

There's this kind of dialogue between African music and dance music, especially Moroccan stuff, because it's kind of ceremonial and has built-in repetition.

— Bonobo

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

— Angelique Kidjo

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

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

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the…

— Isaac Hayes

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

— Fela Kuti

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

— Mahalia Jackson