Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Rosalia - Page 2

When I was 15, 16, I started going to a studio and my biggest inspiration were women, like Lola Flores from Spain or Janis Joplin or Patti Smith.

Flamenco is connected with so many types of music. It has Jewish culture inside, Arabian culture inside, Russian culture inside, Spanish culture inside. It's linked to African music too, because African music has the 'amalgama' rhythms you can find in flamenco. You can find everything in flamenco. That's why it's so beautiful.

I want to keep growing as a musician. I want to keep making records. I want to keep improving as a songwriter. That's what it's all about - to learn, you know?

I understand that flamenco has very specific rules and codes, and there's the weight of tradition, so I can understand when people do not enjoy something that is more heterodox.

I would always change my Barbies. I'd cut their hair, paint on tattoos, and create new clothes for them. I would invent elaborate stories: fights, dramas, successes. I would try out my ideas on them. And sometimes they would sing!

I'm always excited to share my passion about flamenco, so other people can discover this music - which is amazing - and discover the culture.

Working with Pharrell was a dream... Collaborations like that are where you come up with sounds that maybe you wouldn't have found otherwise.

I understand that a lot of people can't connect with my music, because it's a radical proposal and a personal proposal. There will be people who can connect with it, and many that can't.

There's never a sound that I think I can't use in my music.

There's this kind of pressure to be creative or busy most of the time, with lots of activities and progress, and I'm trying to run from that.

My music would make no sense without flamenco.

I grew up in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, a small village near Barcelona. My house was near the countryside, so there was a lot of nature, and at the same time my village is surrounded by factories. That conditioned me a little bit.

I have big dreams, but if God would've told me that I had to sing in a local bar in Barcelona, and that that would be my life, that would be my life, I would've done it with the same passion.

I always liked motorcycles and cars when I was a kid.

I feel like flamenco is part of this Latin music culture. It's from Spain, but flamenco has always been connected to Latinoamerica.

I feel like the music I'm doing is very experimental and very radical.

I compose, produce, arrange - I don't just perform. I'm playing keyboards, playing bass, doing everything.

When I make music I try to do something that people can relate to.

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.

For years, I've been so passionate about nail art and about doing my nails constantly, with different nail artists from around the world.

Flamenco is dark - it's about tragedy and intensity.

My mom I remember, she used to do so many things, I don't know how she did so many things at the same time, she was amazing.

When I was around ten, I decided I would devote myself and my life to music.

I was never in a hurry to make my first album. I knew I wouldn't do it until I knew exactly what I wanted it to be.

I have always been very excited about red, it's one of my favorite colours. It represents strength and flamenco culture.

I always say, there's no music genre better than another.

To learn flamenco is to swallow your pride.

I know that when you take a risk, the consequence will never be a neutral response; it will either be very positive or very negative.

The only thing I admit I can't do with my long nails done is trying to get my card out of the ATM.

Honestly, I don't know what kind of artist I am.

In the end I always think that making music is about sharing. That is the main goal.

The way I make music reflects the way I think.

I'm trying to do things that help keep me mentally healthy, and if that includes making music, then great. But I won't lie - there are days when I just watch a show and eat a packet of cookies.

I am rooted in flamenco. At 13, I fell in love with it, but I couldn't sing it. To sing flamenco is like being a kind of opera singer. You have to learn how.

Camaron has been one of my greatest inspirations.

Barcelona is an open and multicultural city. It's brimming with a very special creative energy. If you pay attention, you may be easily inspired by the places and people living there.

My sound has always evolved and I hope it continues to do so.

I would say, for me, flamenco is so pure, so raw. I love pop culture but sometimes I miss the root, the rawness.

There's a lot of magic in voices. I love voices that are very old, very gravelly, very deep. I like metallic voices; I like velvety voices. The voices of children.

There are so many songwriters that people don't know about. There's so many producers that people don't know about.