African Rhythm Quotes

#1. The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

Pete Seeger

#2. The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.

Win Butler

#3. Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It's a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It's played in all of America - from Argentina to the U.S. It has mutated and been nurtured by everyone who comes across it.

Juan Campodonico

#4. Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste.

Tristram Stuart

#5. Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

Mick Jagger

#6. Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Lewis Carroll

#7. As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.

Sefi Atta

#8. I know I should stop smoking, but it scares me. I mean, what would I turn to next?

Pink

#9. I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.

Megan Hilty

#10. I have a glitch, too. Sometimes I forget that I'm not human. I don't think that happens to most androids.

Marissa Meyer

#11. Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

Christian Scott

#12. I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

Lucinda Williams

#13. To be an artist is to believe in life.

Henry Moore

#14. How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Hawaii is absolutely beautiful.

Rachelle Lefevre

#16. When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

Danica McKellar