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“There are American influences in my music but there is African culture behind it.”

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“It is still a minority of people who are interested in traditional music.”

"Highlife was very popular with Africans in London! It was a powerful reminder of home.”

“Most young musicians in Ghana are getting their ideas from overseas, and maybe mixing in some highlife or Afrobeat. But some people are looking back into earlier forms of music."

"I was born to do this and it's the only thing I want to continue doing."

“I feel like I’m still playing jazz but with Ghanaian rhythms.”

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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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