Africa Quote by Steve Porcaro

'Rosanna' was the hit, but 'Africa' resonated with everyone who heard it.

— Steve Lukather

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

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

— Steve Porcaro

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

— Angelique Kidjo

We listened to 'Beverly Hills.' I wanted to maybe even do a real 'Africa'-type version of that, I was thinking about for a minute.

— Steve Porcaro

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

— Nelson Mandela

I was drawn to West Africa. I did listen to a bunch of different styles of African music, and there was something about the…

— Ludwig Goransson

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

— St. Lucia

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

— Steve Lukather

I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put…

— Baaba Maal

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

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