Shakira Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Shakira
Shakira Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Shakira on Wise Famous Quotes.
I have gone through a lot of things, everything that you can imagine in life, but the best has been Gerard and Milan.
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.
I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.
Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.
For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you're not a small, you're not a large.
Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands.
Sexy is good as long as it's not the main recipe. It's an ingredient. I would not appear in a leotard in a video if I [did] not have other dimensions.
I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.
I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature.
For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.
It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.
Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.
My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I'm fine that way. I don't need to be faithful to any concept, you know.
We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence ...
From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we're just born.
Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.
I'm just a consequence of the great musical momentum and the great changes we are going through in the world.
I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.
I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.
I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
Always I was dreaming of a record contract. From 10 to 13, it was all I could think of. I worked hard for this dream. Nobody could say I didn't try.
I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.
I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
I've written many love songs for Gerard. But it's never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.
You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.
It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.
I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.
Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I'm definitely the disciplinarian.