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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
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
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