I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step. Rokia Traore More Quotes by Rokia Traore More Quotes From 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 to come back to the guitar. Rokia Traore guitar missing years I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that. Rokia Traore life-is-like simple thinking 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 breaks anymore. Rokia Traore important song long Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound. Rokia Traore guitar sound play I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before. Rokia Traore able people thinking At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to another, from one venue to another, it can become longer. Rokia Traore venues albums shows It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing. Rokia Traore great-experiences well-known important You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States. Rokia Traore united-states stars europe American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here. Rokia Traore african-music festivals thinking 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 different cities country 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 it's happening. Rokia Traore albums dream believe Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music. Rokia Traore dream writing song When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience. Rokia Traore artist jobs mean When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist. Rokia Traore thanks chance artist Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die. Rokia Traore very-famous sometimes art An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist. Rokia Traore audience artist In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing. Rokia Traore artist people thinking A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists. Rokia Traore right without rhythm melody Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child. Rokia Traore you family music father
