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" Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born. "
Well
Born
Long Time
" Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms. "
Freedoms
Apartheid
Music
" Corruption is everywhere, man. "
Man
Corruption
Everywhere
" For me to want to play the trumpet was a very, very odd thing for my clan as a whole. One of my uncles was a high school principal, and he referred to my trumpet as a bugle, which really hurt me. "
Play
School
Odd
" 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. "
Always
Laundry
Go
" I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future. "
Build
Future
I Am
" I couldn't get away from the gramophone. It was the only thing that I ever really liked, and I was singing along by the time I was five years old - to the Modernaires and Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. "
Singing
King
Holiday
" I don't criticise anybody, but I just don't understand religion. Like I don't understand nationalism. These are the two things that cause wars. I don't understand why they are supposed to be good things. "
Good Things
Religion
Understand
" I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now. "
Live
Think
Business
" I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it. "
Music
Think
Loving
" I don't think I have the power to forgive. "
Think
Forgive
Power
" I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance. "
Dance
Think
Suffering
" If I don't make heritage visible and the strength of mother tongue important for my grandchildren, it scares me that they might say in 20 years from now, 'Well, it is rumoured that we used to be Africans long ago.' And in many urban areas, it's already happening. "
Mother
Say
Grandchildren
" I got possessed by music as an infant. "
Infant
Possessed
Music
" I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers. "
Community
Up
Come
" I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist. "
Respect
Major
Environmentalist
" 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
Africa
Way
" I live a very enjoyable life. I understand what moderation is. "
Life
Live
Moderation
" I lived for music since I could think. "
Could
Think
Music
" I'm not a Christian. My participation in music is so full blast, 24 hours a day. And that's my religion. I think I'm as spiritual as the pope, because I spend as much time in my spirituality as he does. "
Music
Day
Time
" 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. "
Older
More
Got
" I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history. "
Performance
History
Group
" In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural. "
Cultural
View
Real
" In some townships, political parties are run by thugs financed from Cape Town. If we don't have support of the police, we can not have the ability to organize and to gain even a slight semblance of power. "
Police
Run
Support
" I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician. "
Think
Lived
Music
" I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form. "
Human
Injustice
Form
" I think the most difficult thing that has had to happen in South Africa for the previously disadvantaged communities is they had to reconcile that the oppressor has been enriched and the establishment is now making five or 10 times more profit than they were during the time the economic embargo was on them. "
Time
Now
Africa
" It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period. "
Culture
High
Obvious
" I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor. "
World
Poor
People
" I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture. "
World
Wealth
Through
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