Quotes by Yannick Noah

• Your child is happy. What else could you want?
• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
• You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
• When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
• We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
• People judged my work without to have listened to it.
• The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
• I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
• I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
• In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
• I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
• It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
• Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
• Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.
• Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
• Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
• In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
• I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.