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" I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist. "

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" Just because Nelson has been released doesn't mean the government has done us any favors. We have nothing to be grateful for. The government destroyed our country, destroyed our people. If anybody needs amnesty, it is the government. "

" It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period. "

" The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always saw them as being comedic. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't think I have the power to forgive. "

" I got possessed by music as an infant. "

" In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural. "

" Corruption is everywhere, man. "

" 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. "

" Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms. "

" 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. "

" I live a very enjoyable life. I understand what moderation is. "

" 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. "

" When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa. "

" One of the greatest things that could really happen to Africa is for us to get rid of the borders and for the leadership not to think that the countries belong to them... We didn't create the borders to start with. "

" I lived for music since I could think. "

" Not only in Africa but in much of the world, most leaders' pockets are lined by industrial business. And industrial business is never going to stop aiming at profit. "

" 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. "

" Watching a Kirk Douglas movie, 'Young Man With A Horn,' made me want to be a trumpet player. "

" When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things. "

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

" I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form. "

" The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive. "

" What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I want to see Nelson walking down the streets of South Africa; I want to see him walking hand-in-hand with Winnie Mandela. "

" 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. "