Youssou N'Dour Quotes

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

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Home
  • Easy

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Music
  • Like
  • Artists

• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Love
  • Unique

• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Austin

• I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Art
  • Remember

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Music
  • Style
  • Find

• My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Best

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Story

• I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.

  

  Al Walser
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • World
  • Music

• Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Remember
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and ill health in the world.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • World
  • Health
  • Moral

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

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
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