Audience Quotes by Rokia Traore

12 Audience quotes by Rokia Traore

Traore’s thoughts on listeners are rooted in cultural pulse and personal connection. Though brief, the twelve excerpts highlight how she sees the audience as a partner in her artistic journey.

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An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

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I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love…

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American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music…

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When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your…

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When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you…

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The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another,…

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Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and…

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Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be…

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At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to…

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I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm…

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I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because…

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Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a…

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I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted…

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I don't think I'm unique or that I'm trying to do something unique, but I feel it is something I would like to hear.…

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A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

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You can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you think you…

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The most important thing is to be happy myself with what I am doing.

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I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and…

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The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come…

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We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

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