Dour Quotes: top 39 famous quotes about Dour

Dour Quotes & Sayings

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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great. — Youssou N'Dour

I have studied at the school of the world. — Youssou N'Dour

Music is a language. — Youssou N'Dour

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep. — Youssou N'Dour

Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists. — Youssou N'Dour

Travel teaches as much as books. — Youssou N'Dour

Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed - if they're here, I want to know about them. — Carl Sagan

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them. — Youssou N'Dour

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do. — John Steinbeck

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy. — Youssou N'Dour

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. — Zaha Hadid

Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile. — Steven Erikson

Africa is the future. — Youssou N'Dour

I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face. — Youssou N'Dour

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school. — Youssou N'Dour

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics. — Colin Meloy

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so. — Youssou N'Dour

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins. — Youssou N'Dour

one of the council, a dour-looking man with a — Peter Darman

He's usually so dour. But not now, not with me, and I like it. He doesn't interact with others without the shield he puts in front of him. — Lena Black

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. — Phyllis McGinley

Islam is a peaceful religion. — Youssou N'Dour

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology. — Youssou N'Dour

I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie. — Damon Lindelof

How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck? — Caitlin Kittredge

I don't really see myself as an actor. — Youssou N'Dour

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private. — Youssou N'Dour

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic. — Matthew Healy

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine. — Neal A. Maxwell

The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves. — Jo Durie

The eyes-the thousands of wandering, questioning, reproving eyes-they are all around us. They penetrate my clothes. They rip at my skin. They dour me. — Jessica Brody

I respect music, I do. I love it. — Youssou N'Dour

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. — Youssou N'Dour

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me. — Youssou N'Dour

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future. — Youssou N'Dour

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician. — Youssou N'Dour

I grew up with reggae music. — Youssou N'Dour

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president. — John Podhoretz