"I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician."

-- Youssou N'Dour

#Political Quotes #Use Quotes #Want Quotes

“And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?”
“It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions
“There's really no reason film and digital can't happily co-exist and benefit from one another. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to sell you something.”

Source : Source: www.notcoming.com
“In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.”
“The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.”
“You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.”
“Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.”
“Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.”

Source : FaceBook post by David Bach from Apr 06, 2011

You may also like:

Abdoulaye Wade
Former President of Senegal
Akon
Hip-hop artist
Angelique Kidjo
Singer-songwriter
Neneh Cherry
Singer-songwriter
Peter Gabriel
Singer
Sting
Musician
Baaba Maal
Singer
Manu Dibango
Musical Artist
Rokia Traore
Singer-songwriter