Mali Music Quotes

#1. I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.

Conor Oberst

#2. Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#3. It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.

Jodi Picoult

#4. There was a boy in my building who was my best friend when I was growing up. There was also a mysterious person on my corner who we called the Laughing Man.

Rebecca Stead

#5. Mali is a very social society. We share everything. I think sharing our resources in music forces us to collaborate more, play with other people more, share ideas more.

Vieux Farka Toure

#6. Increase your vision of achievement simply by raising your goals ...

Stephen Richards

#7. Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

Miles Davis

#8. A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it.

Marie Daulne

#9. When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!

Peace Pilgrim

#10. The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

W. H. Auden

#11. People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

John Le Carre

#12. I have done most of my talking by post of late years
as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#13. There you are, darling. So sorry I'm late.

Kiersten White

#14. Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.

Vieux Farka Toure

#15. My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" Mr. Bennet

Jane Austen

#16. We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

Rokia Traore