I respect music, I do. I love it.

- 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

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

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 p…

- Youssou N'Dour

Africa is the future.

- Youssou N'Dour

Travel teaches as much as books.

- Youssou N'Dour

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 mistak…

- Youssou N'Dour

I don't really see myself as an actor.

- Youssou N'Dour

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 veh…

- Youssou N'Dour