Aboriginal Music Quotes & Sayings

Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant. — Peter Sculthorpe

One ought perhaps not to count Moses, as he was a mere executor of the will of God; he must nevertheless be admired, if only for the grace that made him worthy of speaking to God. — Niccolo Machiavelli

seeking forgiveness, — Leenie Brown

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics. — Michael Crichton

There's part of it when Manute has both eyes. And the character was actually fleshed out a lot more, in this movie. I got to show people who Manute is and why he is and how devout he is. He is Ava's protector and punisher. — Dennis Haysbert

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place. — Xavier Rudd

He raged and questioned and mourned. Eventually he found peace - not peace like some still pond, but peace like a river, jostling over rocks, hurtling over falls, whirling in eddies. Authentic, rugged peace. — Sarah Sundin