3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour 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.
3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour 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.
3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour 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.
3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour 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.
3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour My father used to tell me about how musicians don’t have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
