We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.
I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Music is the universal language.
The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.
In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.
I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.