Quotes About South African Music

#1. 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

#2. The contemporary music of Tina Turner might make you feel powerful and energized. South African music provides a mind-boggling choice of styles from folk tunes to jive. Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony has the magical ability to transport you to a country scene and trap you in a driving rain storm.

Jason Harvey

#3. The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.

Saul Williams

#4. Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.

Ketch Secor

#5. The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

Virgil

#6. There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Anthony Edwards

#7. The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.

St. Lucia

#8. Conquering your fear gives you the best victory.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Since our understanding of Truth itself does not remain constant, one who is determined to pursue it diligently must constantly test and reexamine his or her views.

Arun Gandhi

#10. The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.

Peter Wilson

#11. Heart stop aching, mind stop thinking.

Chime

#12. I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

Mandy Patinkin