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At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.
Sep 29, 2025
I play American and World music, Texas style.
The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.
I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that.
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.
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
Music is the strongest form of magic.
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
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.
Music's the medicine of the mind.
Music is the medicine of the mind.
I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that.
World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.
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 like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
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.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.
What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.)
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
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.
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.
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.
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.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Where words leave off, music begins.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Music gives a soul to the universe.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Music can change the world.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
The great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is to use music as an occult medium through which to develop altered states of consciousness, psychic abilities, and contact with the spirit world. Music in the future is to be used to bring people into yet closer touch with the devils; they will be enabled to partake of the beneficial influence of these beings while attending concerts at which by the appropriate type of sound they have been invoked.
Where words fail, music speaks.