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" My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins. "
Youssou N'Dour
Music
Back
Direction
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" I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private. "
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" I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them. "
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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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" Music is a language. "
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" Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy. "
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" When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. "
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" 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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" I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people. "
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" Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists. "
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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 grew up with reggae music. "
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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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" Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. "
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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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Happiness
Community
" 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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" I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so. "
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" Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology. "
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" 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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" Senegal needs a renaissance. "
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" World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great. "
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" Islam is a peaceful religion. "
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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 have studied at the school of the world. "
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" Africa is the future. "
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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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" 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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" 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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