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Youssou N Dour Inspirational Quotes (35)

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Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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Senegal needs a renaissance.
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Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people bring something new to that familiar face.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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I have studied at the school of the world.
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I grew up with reggae music.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.
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Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
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In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don't know anymore. They aren't free.
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I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
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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.
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In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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