50 Quotes by Youssou N'Dour

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

I respect music, I do. I love it.

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.

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

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.

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.

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

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.