Hugh Masekela Quotes

I Always Make The Joke That I Go Home, To One Of My Homes, To Go And Do Laundry So I Can Go On The Road Again.

To Tell You The Truth, Man, We Spend Most Of The Time Travelling In Hotels, In Festivals, In Concert Halls, Clubs, Airports. The Most Unenjoyable Part Is All The Security At Airports.

When I Left South Africa In 1960 I Was 20 Years Old. I Wanted To Try To Get An Education, And Music Education Was Not Available For Me In South Africa.

Africa Has Been Troubled For A Long Time - Well, The World Has Been Troubled Ever Since I Was Born.

I'm Travelling More Than Ever. I Don't Have The Answer As To Why, But The Demand Seems To Have Grown As I've Got Older.

In My View, Africa's Real Problems Are Cultural.

I Grew Up With Protests, Marches, Demonstrations, Struggle. But I Come From A Clan Of Community Workers.

I Just Came From South Africa, A Place That Had Been In A Perpetual Uprising Since 1653, So The Uprising Had Become A Way Of Life In Our Culture And We Grew Up With Rallies And Strikes And Marches And Boycotts.

I Think That Anybody From The 20th Century, Up To Now, Has To Be Aware That If It Wasn't For Louis Armstrong, We'd All Be Wearing Powdered Wigs. I Think That Louis Armstrong Loosened The World, Helped People To Be Able To Say "yeah," And To Walk With A Little Dip In Their Hip. Before Louis Armstrong, The World Was Definitely Square, Just Like Christopher Columbus Thought.

I Don't Think What I Do Is Influenced By Suffering. I Come From A Talented People Who Are Prolific In Music And Dance.

All My Experiences Removed Geography From My World.

When People Campaign For Positions, They Promise People All Kinds Of Things.