African Quote by Marcus Samuelsson

I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music…

— Bobby McFerrin

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

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music...…

— Lenny Kravitz

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

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the…

— Isaac Hayes

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great…

— Gilad Atzmon

In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.

— Daniel Levitin

I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'

— Hiro Murai

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.'…

— Lady Gaga

I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real…

— Hozier

I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I related to…

— Fantastic Negrito