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African Music Quotes

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You cannot sing African music in proper English
Fela Kuti

You cannot perform African music in flawless English.
Authors on African Music Quotes: Nelson Mandela St. Lucia Letta Mbulu Rokia Traore Joseph Jarman Ice Prince Miriam Makeba Fela Kuti Hugh Masekela Ned Sublette Serj Tankian
2.
I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.
Hugh Masekela

3.
African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.
Miriam Makeba

4.
One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success.
Ice Prince

5.
What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.
St. Lucia

6.
I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
Joseph Jarman

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The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer and audience, broke down the wall of the proscenium.
Ned Sublette

8.
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.
Nelson Mandela

9.
I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.
Letta Mbulu

10.
I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
Serj Tankian

11.
American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.
Rokia Traore