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It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing. — 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 us that are a kind of mirage. — Rokia Traore

You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States. — Rokia Traore

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

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life. — Rokia Traore

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound. — Rokia Traore

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it. — Beryl Markham

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

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible. — Rokia Traore

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists. — Rokia Traore

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music. — Rokia Traore

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

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music. — Rokia Traore

Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be successful or not. — Rokia Traore

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours. — Maria Edgeworth

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers. — T.E. Lawrence

You just have to try before thinking that you can't. — Rokia Traore

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

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

Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers. — A.D. Posey

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

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

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist. — Rokia Traore

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

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need. — Michelle Monaghan

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that. — Rokia Traore