Quotes by Hugh Masekela

Hugh Masekela

Africa has been troubled for a long time – well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

Born

Long

World

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

Geography

World

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.

Goes On

Home

Laundry

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

Live In The Moment

Moments

Persons

I don’t think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

Musician

Statements

Thinking

I don’t think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

People

Suffering

Thinking

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Community

March

Struggle

I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of… my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic – schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer – and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.

Mother

Running

Smart

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.

Culture

Uprising

Way

I lived for music since I could think.

Thinking

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Quotes by Hugh Masekela

Hugh Masekela

Africa has been troubled for a long time – well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

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.

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

I don’t think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

I don’t think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

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 lived for music since I could think.

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