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

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

Category:
Home
Read Quote

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. – Miriam Makeba

Category:
Nature
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Music
category

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Music

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. – Karl Lagerfeld

Category:
Music

Musics staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. – Gary Wright

Category:
Music

You cant imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. – Bob Dylan

Category:
Music

Random Quotes

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our – our son or daughter for a mental health checkup? – Gordon Smith

Category:
Health

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. – Kin Hubbard

Category:
Happiness

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. – Rupert Murdoch

Category:
Change

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Learning