At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

- Yannick Noah

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

- Yannick Noah

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

- Yannick Noah

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

- Yannick Noah

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

- Yannick Noah

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

- Yannick Noah

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

- Yannick Noah

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

- Yannick Noah

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

- Yannick Noah