Ability Quote by Rokia Traore

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

— Angelique Kidjo

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

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music.…

— Youssou N'Dour

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

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

— Nick Zinner

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

— Fela Kuti

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

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

We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?

— Steve Lukather

I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years…

— St. Lucia

America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.

— Fela Kuti

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

— Stephen Lewis