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Miriam Makeba

"And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite."

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"And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite."

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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."

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"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."

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Miriam Makeba
"It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now."

Home

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Miriam Makeba
"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."

Nature

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Miriam Makeba
"You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important."

People

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Miriam Makeba
"In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home."

Home

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Miriam Makeba
"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources."

Cause

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Miriam Makeba
"And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite."

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Miriam Makeba
"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better."

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Miriam Makeba
"It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves."

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Miriam Makeba
"I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me."

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"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."

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