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Top 30 Youssou N'Dour Quotes (2025 Update)

Youssou N'Dour Quote: “Africa is the future.”

1. “Africa is the future.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “Islam is a peaceful religion.”

2. “Islam is a peaceful religion.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “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.”

3. “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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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.”

4. “Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.”

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

5. “I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together – which is great.”

6. “World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together – which is great.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “I respect music, I do. I love it.”

7. “I respect music, I do. I love it.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “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.”

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

10. “My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.”

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

11. “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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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.”

12. “I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.”

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

13. “My father used to tell me about how musicians don’t have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “I grew up with reggae music.”

14. “I grew up with reggae music.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.”

15. “If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “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.”

16. “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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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world’s diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.”

17. “People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world’s diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.”

18. “When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “I don’t want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.”

19. “I don’t want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “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.”

20. “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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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.”

21. “In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.”

22. “The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “Western record companies haven’t always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they’re going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!”

23. “Western record companies haven’t always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they’re going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “Senegal needs a renaissance.”

24. “Senegal needs a renaissance.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “I have studied at the school of the world.”

25. “I have studied at the school of the world.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.”

26. “Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “I don’t really see myself as an actor.”

27. “I don’t really see myself as an actor.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.”

28. “Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “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.”

29. “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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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don’t want to be a politician.”

30. “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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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.”

31. “I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.”

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Youssou N'Dour Quote: “Travel teaches as much as books.”

32. “Travel teaches as much as books.”

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