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In Mali, you hear music everywhere. What is fantastic in Mali is the music tradition is handed down from father to son orally. It…

— Ludovico Einaudi

Mali is a very social society. We share everything. I think sharing our resources in music forces us to collaborate more, play with other…

— Vieux Farka Toure

We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all…

— Vieux Farka Toure

There are incredible musicians around the world.

— Kurt Elling

Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and…

— Vieux Farka Toure

There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.

— Eddy de Clercq

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

— Jack Bruce

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

— St. Lucia

When I came home my parents were listening to Pakistani Qawwali music, like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, they're listening to music from Mali, like…

— Devendra Banhart

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

— Angelique Kidjo

Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.

— Jake Holmes

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

— John Frusciante