Quote by Miriam Makeba
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that its third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, its much more polite. – Miriam Makeba

Other quotes by Miriam Makeba

Its a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I dont see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. – Miriam Makeba

Category:
Music
Read Quote

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you wont get run over. – Miriam Makeba

Category:
Age
Read Quote

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. – Miriam Makeba

Category:
Future
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Music
category

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. – Carlos Santana

Category:
Music

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. – Lao Tzu

Category:
Music

I love 70s music. – Laura Linney

Category:
Music

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. – Stevie Wonder

Category:
Music

Random Quotes

Time and I against any two. – Proverb

Category:
Time

My schedule has slowed a little. Ive cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago. – Lesley Visser

Category:
Sports

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Truth

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is. – Robert Plant

Category:
Change