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Stella Chiweshe
27 quotes
“All the experience that I get through my travels with music, I would like to share it with the youth, with school children and with older people, to give back what I have experienced in my lifetime.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know that since we were colonised for 100 years, for all that time our traditional music was oppressed, people were not free to sing their traditional songs.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once I was playing and I started to see the mbira as the head of a lion, the keys were the teeth of the lion. There was no way to escape, so the only thing I could do was to break the teeth of the lion. It happened for a long time that I was fighting with the lion, breaking its teeth. Afterwards, people were looking at me and I was wondering what was happening when I was breaking the teeth!”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But if it is something that is in the blood and the veins of the people, it is not possible to completely remove it, we did not stop playing mbira in the communal lands, we didn’t.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything happens for a reason, but I believe Zimbabwe will be O.K..', When listening to a voice so wise and gentle, it is hard not to believe.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you are listening to the mbira, let go of any thinking”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let your mind to do its own thing”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stella Chiweshe obituary,30 January 2023
“It gave me courage to ignore everyone. I ignored men, I ignored women, I ignored the government, I ignored the church”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That’s how I started to play”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Obituary: Stella Chiweshe (1946-2023),23 January 2023
“It’s not going to be a place for a honeymoon. It’s a place for individuals to come and be healed by the mbira. Your mind can become very congested. Mbira is dismantling, dismantling, dismantling, to bring peace”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mbira without hosho is for sitting and listening to something important. And the one with hosho is for arousing people to dance”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, it is not a long time ago. I started by playing solo but I said, ‘O.K., let me try this. Other people are doing that. Let me try this.’ We just rehearsed for two-and-a-half hours and then we were on the road. They were surprised, Colin and Nigel. They were surprised at how fast they managed to play that, but for me I was not surprised because from a long time ago, I was seeing them in my visions, playing with them. And then finally we met”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know, a song does not stay at one place. Now for me, this song is calling for the unification of voices. That is where ‘Chachimurenga’ is now. Voices, singing together. People talk a lot. They never come together to sing. Sing, sing. Just sing, sing”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is very easy to offend somebody if you don’t know their manners”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All cultures who would like to explain themselves can come. Then we will understand each other. There is no time to talk about politics, the weather. Don’t talk about anything. When people come there, they should stop talking. When we stop talking, we are very much wiser. We will understand each other more when we keep quiet”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are mixing people from many different lands and cultures. When we come from silence, I can explain how it is in my culture, so we can understand each other. I’m not the leader. The leader is mbira”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I only have stones around me. What I did there, I built four wooden cabins. There is one for the builders, one for me, one for my visitor and one for utensils for brewing beer”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stella Chiweshe to Build Culture Center in Zimbabwe, 12 December 2020
“I sing for peace amongst us. I am praying most of the time for the people, not just for myself. I talk to Mother Earth; she is the one who holds all the energies that keep us strong.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m used to performing in churches. I think they are holy places and I am playing music for my forefathers.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“was so excited when I heard about this invitation, because it’s my first time to perform in Romania.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was a kid I loved singing, but I did not want to make noise for other people.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanted to hear how far my voice can go, to the point where the people in the village would call me singer when I was very little. This is how I grew up.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was hard, because the people’s music can never be killed.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My elders could not tell me what made such a sound, because they were afraid that if they would tell me I would go about saying that the sound of the drum is being played in my chest. I grew up with that until I was six years old, with this sound of the drum, but I could only hear it by myself.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The rhythm of that drum - and the sound as well - has the same rhythm with the mbira. Then, after two years following that ceremony, I started to hear the sound of the mbira that was played that day afresh. It was as if it was from somewhere, but it was really from my head.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, at six in the morning they were already there, attending the mission. These people who were trying to ban our music called us people who make the music of the devil. As children, we watched out for those people from the church and if we saw one, we were asked to run a report that we’ve seen a stranger, a hider. I couldn’t find one because I had the drumming inside me.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“when people who searched for traditional instruments were about to come and if you were found with some traditional instrument you were going to be imprisoned. So, we took everything and hid it in a hole dug in the middle of the field; I hid my mbira there. After one week, we saw that no one was coming to search and I had to go to dig out my instrument and, unlike another one there, the mbira was intact.”
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stella Chiweshe - The Zimbabwe Queen of Mbira,June 16 2019