The most important thing is to be happy myself with what I am doing. — Rokia Traore Doing Copy Share Image
I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music. — Rokia Traore Different Copy Share Image
You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States. — Rokia Traore Astronomy Copy Share Image
Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound. — Rokia Traore Courses Copy Share Image
We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music. — Rokia Traore Ability Copy Share Image
There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to… — Rokia Traore I can Copy Share Image
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… — Rokia Traore Feels Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the… — Rokia Traore Age Copy Share Image
The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another,… — Rokia Traore Audience Copy Share Image
For me, each time I'm on stage, each time I'm working on a new album, it's like a dream. I can't believe… — Rokia Traore Albums Copy Share Image
I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated… — Rokia Traore Arrangements Copy Share Image
When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your… — Rokia Traore Art Copy Share Image
When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you… — Rokia Traore Able Copy Share Image
You can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you… — Rokia Traore Ifs Copy Share Image
I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm… — Rokia Traore Albums Copy Share Image
I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he… — Rokia Traore Contact Copy Share Image
Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced… — Rokia Traore African Copy Share Image
I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love… — Rokia Traore Able Copy Share Image
In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well… — Rokia Traore Art Copy Share Image
I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because… — Rokia Traore Arrangements Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music… — Rokia Traore Advantage Copy Share Image
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music… — Rokia Traore Call Copy Share Image
We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life. — Rokia Traore Happenings Copy Share Image
American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music… — Rokia Traore African music Copy Share Image
My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he… — Rokia Traore Able Copy Share Image
Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that… — Rokia Traore Ability Copy Share Image
It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing. — Rokia Traore Fame Copy Share Image
I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that. — Rokia Traore Life is Copy Share Image
I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and… — Rokia Traore Albums Copy Share Image
The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with… — Rokia Traore Experiences Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to… — Rokia Traore Albums Copy Share Image
Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be… — Rokia Traore Albums Copy Share Image
Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and… — Rokia Traore Audience Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a… — Rokia Traore Art Copy Share Image
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It… — Rokia Traore Could Copy Share Image
The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional… — Rokia Traore Ability Copy Share Image
Everybody does music from his culture and his experiences with his culture. There are not so many people who are interested by… — Rokia Traore Country Copy Share Image
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