Christianity Quote by Mahalia Jackson

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

It's very hard to grow up in the African American church and for music to not be in your veins. It's just part of…

— Kirk Franklin

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

— Miriam Makeba

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

— Ray Manzarek

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

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

— Cassandra Wilson

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

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African…

— Dexter Gordon

Jazz was the beginning of rhythm music, which developed into rock and roll. But what the jazz musicians lost because they were so far…

— Fela Kuti

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

— Robert Plant

I haven't really ever seen a big budget Hollywood film with African music. Most of the time, it's just Hollywood's perception of what African…

— 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