Citas de 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 precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.

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  Opportunity, People, Diversity

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• Creo que la gente debería conocer más África por su alegría de vivir, su sentimiento por la vida. A pesar de las imágenes que uno conoce de África -la pobreza económica, la corrupción-, hay una alegría de vivir y una felicidad en la comunidad, en la convivencia, en la vida comunitaria, que quizá falte aquí en Estados Unidos.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Community Living

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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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  Ideas, Connections, Sake

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• Africa is the future.

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• Travel teaches as much as books.

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  Book, Teach

  "Musician eyes presidency in Senegal" By Ebrima Sillah, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2012.

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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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  Art, Play, Political

  "I'm bringing a message" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Niños, Escuela, Gente

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• In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

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  Lying, Promise, Sometimes

  "I'm bringing a message" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2007.

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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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  Political, Use, Want

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Islamic, Culture

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• I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

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  People, Interesting, Meetings

  "Youssou N'Dour is a musical wonder. He stands by his beliefs. And he's stunning Senegal and the whole world" by Jonathan Curiel, www.sfgate.com. July 17, 2004.

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• In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don't know anymore. They aren't free.

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  Communication, Government, People

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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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  Middle East, Matter, Be Careful

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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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  Thinking, Ideas, Culture

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• When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

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  Slave, Left

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• La música del mundo consiste en tomar cosas de distintos lugares y unirlas, lo cual es estupendo.

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  Juntos, Diferentes, Mundo

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• I have studied at the school of the world.

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  School, World

  "Musician eyes presidency in Senegal" By Ebrima Sillah, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2012.

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• I respect music, I do. I love it.

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• Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

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  Democracy, Needs

  "Youssou N'Dour interview: 'Senegal is turning into a dictatorship'". Interview with Harriet Alexander, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 19, 2012.

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• Mi música es como una pelota que gira. Puede girar en una dirección y luego volver a los orígenes.

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  One Direction, Balls, Spinning

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• Realmente no me veo como un actor.

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  Actores

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• I grew up with reggae music.

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  Reggae, Grew Up, Grew

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• Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

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  Islam, Used, Certain

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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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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  País, Gente, Necesidades

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• Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

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  Giving, Musician, Records

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