Youssou N'Dour People Quotations

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

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.

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

I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

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.

If we think about dignity, ... People from north to east and south really want to have dignity, and with these problems, malaria problems, people cannot go to work, kids do not go to school, and it is about dignity and the impact of this problem to our economy.

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.

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.