Zitat des Tages von Hugh Masekela:
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.
To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.
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'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.
I don't think I have the power to forgive.
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.
It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.
Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.
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.
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.
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.
I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist.
I got possessed by music as an infant.
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.
When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.
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.
Watching a Kirk Douglas movie, 'Young Man With A Horn,' made me want to be a trumpet player.
I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.
Once in a while, I treat myself to a cheesecake or carrot cake.
