Quotes from Angelique Kidjo

You can fall, but you can rise also.

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.