60 Quotes by Hugh Masekela

I got possessed by music as an infant.

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

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.

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.

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

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.