Logo
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
Author
Miriam Makeba
Read Quote

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home. – Miriam Makeba

Category:
Home
Author
Miriam Makeba
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
Author
Miriam Makeba
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Music
category

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. – Thomas Beecham

Category:
Music

People havent always been there for me, but music always has. – Taylor Swift

Category:
Music

Youre now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think thats why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did. – Katherine Jenkins

Category:
Music

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today theres a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and its all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. – Neil Young

Category:
Music

Random Quotes

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. – Marquis de Sade

Category:
Success

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. – Albert Camus

Category:
Suffering

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution. – Jeff Sessions

Category:
Marriage

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the childs problems will never be important enough for a television movie. – Nora Ephron

Category:
Health