African music Quote by Nelson Mandela

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have…

— Nelson Mandela

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have…

— Nelson Mandela

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

— St. Lucia

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

— Angelique Kidjo

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

— Ludwig Goransson

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their…

— Fela Kuti

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

— Maya Angelou

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

— Miriam Makeba

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

The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.

— Li Keqiang

Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to…

— Femi Kuti