Rokia Traore Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

  Rokia Traore

  Country, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

• Everybody does music from his culture and his experiences with his culture. There are not so many people who are interested by the music coming from different countries and different cultures and trying to make music from that, from all these experiences.

  Rokia Traore

  Country, People, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Rokia Traore

  Country, Cities, Different

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

• Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.

  Rokia Traore

  Country, Attitude, Musical

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