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My music is just trying to be as honest as I can about accountability.

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The value of what Afrobeat is, which is conscious music, can inspire people to bring change.

We must try to find a way to revolt without it being violent.

Music to me is just sound being manipulated.

What I am doing is the same thing my dad did, which is finding my own sound.

Every day, it has never escaped me that I’m from something a lot greater than me, something that a lot of great people have been part of, and tried to ensure progressive attitude and consciousness in certain directions.

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

Lucy Green

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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