Top 1200 African Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink.

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.

Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

The relationship between police and African-Americans has probably always been strained.

Sooner or later, an African team will win the World Cup.

African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.

Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to orchestral and jazz. For me, the nineties were about Oasis, because I was travelling around Britain when that band exploded onto the music scene.

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

My question is why does every African American fighter have to be the villain?

Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.

Nowadays, especially when you think of electronic music, it's like, the producer is mostly the one who makes the music or the beats and everything. But I am more, since I'm that old, when I started to make music the producer was just sitting in the back shouting and drinking beer.

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

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I remember, growing up, it wasn't sexy to be African. We got called names.

If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don't have to say, 'Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music.' I get to listen to music and go to work.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

I'm going to make music that reflects me and my life now. So I think people who like my music and who listen to me should appreciate change as well, because I've definitely evolved, and that's a great thing, to celebrate that is what music is all about.

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

You don't ever want an African father to come to your school looking for you.

There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.

I love African American women, but I just don't like my skin complexion.

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

I'm an African. I was brought up here; my home is here. Being an Afropolitan, I am here to stay.

I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.

There was a lot of freedom, so bands in those days did not have to play for the public. They played for club owners that enjoyed music. You know, what happened - there was a lot of clubs that had bebop music or different forms of music. It was great for musicians.

I don't listen to a ton of music other than putting my show together, just because my lifestyle isn't too conducive to listening to music all the time. I like to watch basketball, and I would rather not listen to music while I'm doing that.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration.

Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing.

With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life.

I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans.

It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.

There's never been a weak South African or Australian team. They are fighters.

Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new.

I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Music festivals are coming up everywhere in India, and that is the only way to go ahead. People are exposed to a wide variety of music, and the experience of being at a music festival itself is unique. It is an experience unlike any other.

It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.

Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing