African music Quote by Squarepusher

I traveled to a library in South Africa called ILAM (International Library of African Music), which has a collection of about 500 different instruments…

— Ludwig Goransson

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

What's really good is African drum music.

— Fiona Apple

One thing about Indonesians is that a lot of them, even if they don't understand English, have absolutely no problem memorizing English songs. Even…

— Rich Brian

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

— Jack Bruce

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.

— Howard Shore

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they…

— Joanna Newsom

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

— Robert Plant

It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add any kind…

— Ludwig Goransson

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

I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.

— Ricky Reed