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"Sometimes the weather’s good, and you’re just sailing, and sometimes big storms hit, and you know, you’re in a stormy sea, but just ride it out, ride it out. Because it’s good to be alive."

Patti
Smith

"When I could use any sound in the world, why would I use one that my next-door-neighbour has chosen?"

Matthew

Herbert

A handgun is delivered and she looks at it and then throws it down among her ceremonial clutter. She wants me to know that she has a gun.

Brenda

Fassie

“Music can’t change the world. But at least you can make people stop and listen.”

Baba

Maal

“We don’t seek publicity. We never have. We’ve never sought to make ourselves famous like a lot of people do. And we’re generally well-behaved civil people."

REM

" One of the reasons why this country has such low cultural self-esteem is because we’ve only been sold foreign values and we are plagued about who we are."

Hugh

Masekela

"I trust that there are people every day, finding their way to the pieces of work that are going to be important in their lives."

Will
Oldham

Phiri was not so much a man as a conduit for the swirling ball of energy and history that flowed around him.

Ray
Phiri

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