Congo Quote by Jain Download Open image “I started to write my songs when I was 15 and living in the Congo.” — Jain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Congo Living Music Songs Started Write
At 16 I was living in the Congo, and, you know, it's your teenage time. I really wanted to find a way to express myself, so I started to write songs in the Congo, and I think that's why my music is quite open, with a lot of different influences. — Jain Copy Share
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music. — Jain Copy Share Image
I quietly work with my computer on the tour bus, and then I wait to make my more natural rhythms when I get home. — Jain Copy Share Image
What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation. — Jain Copy Share Image
Sometimes people stop me on the street and they say 'when are you going to make the next 'Zanaka' and it's what I really… — Jain Copy Share Image
At 16 I was living in the Congo, and, you know, it's your teenage time. I really wanted to find a way to express… — Jain Copy Share Image
I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up. — Jain Copy Share Image
I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it. — Jain Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where, when we listened to music everybody would dance, so for me that's a very natural thing to… — Jain Copy Share Image
I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad… — Jain Copy Share Image
When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and… — Jain Copy Share Image
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . . The adversaries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem… — Lisa Shannon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Stanley must have realized that this postponement would probably be fatal. But while he did not give up, he never for a moment thought… — Tim Jeal Copy Share Image
I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America. — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do,… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
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