Albums Quote by Rokia Traore

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore

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 things around…

— Rokia Traore

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

— Rokia Traore

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can…

— Rokia Traore

The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.

— Rokia Traore

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

— Rokia Traore

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.…

— Rokia Traore

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

— Rokia Traore

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

— Rokia Traore

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…

— Rokia Traore

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

— Rokia Traore

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…

— Rokia Traore