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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
— Youssou N'Dour
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
— Jose Bergamin
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
We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.
— Nicky Gumbel
Travel teaches as much as books.
— Youssou N'Dour
I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
— Youssou N'Dour
I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
— Adam Braun
Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
— 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
I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.
— Dave Mustaine
C++ is an insult to the human brain
— Niklaus Wirth
You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.
— Anthony Horowitz
Africa is the future.
— 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
I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
— Youssou N'Dour
I respect music, I do. I love it.
— Youssou N'Dour
Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
— Youssou N'Dour
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
— Mary Ellen Mark
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
— Virginia Woolf
I don't really see myself as an actor.
— Youssou N'Dour
Islam is a peaceful religion.
— Youssou N'Dour
I was not really as good as I should have been.
— Eddie Albert
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
— Asghar Farhadi
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 can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.
— Youssou N'Dour
I grew up with reggae music.
— Youssou N'Dour