World Music Quotes

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  • The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.

  • You are the music while the music lasts.

    Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)
  • Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

  • Music is the strongest form of magic.

    Music   Magic   Form  
  • I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

    World   Want   Hood  
    Source: www.djbooth.net
  • I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

    Holiday   Black   Bakers  
  • I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

  • Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

    Music   Beautiful   Heart  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. Music and movies. That's what's exciting about what we do, the fact that it's so global. It brings people together. People don't have to understand the language to laugh at actors. They're going to laugh even though they don't understand what they're saying. Cause they're seeing it.

    "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.
  • I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; World Music, Brit-pop, Classic Rock, Blues/Jazz, even the odd bit of Heavy metal.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

    Music   Wisdom   Dope  
    Arnold Bennett (2004). “Sacred and Profane Love”, p.14, online-ebooks.info
  • The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.

    America   World   South  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Music can change the world because it can change people.

  • I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that.

    Simple   Thinking   World  
  • For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.

    People   Giving   Relief  
  • Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

    Music   Knowledge   World  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in more of a modernized version - and Explorer Series stuff, which is completely undiluted indigenous folk music. That's a lot more powerful than a lot of the super-processed stuff that comes out now.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Where words fail, music speaks.

    Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”
  • If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

    Music   Art   Reality  
    Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
  • Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

    Music   Wine   Silence  
    "The Vinyl Solution". Musician, Player, and Listener, No. 24, April/May 1980.
  • In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

    "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.
  • It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

    Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber
  • I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

    "Tom Waits: A Raspy Voice Heads To The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 21, 2002.
  • A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

    Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.
  • Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

    "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.
  • I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.

    Kids   Gay   World  
  • I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

    Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.
  • Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a homogenized spirituality, but to birth a radical new sound embedded in the ancient and timeless silence. This doesn't impact or deepen my life-it is my life.

    Impact   Silence   Sound  
  • Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  • When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.

    "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.
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