Youssou N'Dour Quotes

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

Music is the soul of language.

Music is the highest form of communication.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

Music is important.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

Music truly is the universal language.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

I think music is another language.

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

The people need to feel the music.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.