Natalia Lafourcade Quotes

Natalia Lafourcade

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 26, 1984

No, I don't want them to remove my scar. Scars are cool.

Natalia Lafourcade

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.

Natalia Lafourcade

I wanted to make 'Mexicana Hermosa.' It's a love song, but it isn't. It's more like a song as if Mexico was the Maria, the beautiful woman that I love.

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I would cry all of the time and I didn't know why! I was having shows and after the show I would go to the room, order a big hamburger and a vanilla shake or something like that... and cry because I was so depressed... I think it was because I was too tired.

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Every time I go to Veracruz, I feel like, OK, I am back. When my feet go to the ground on the earth, I think, 'This is me, this is home, these are my roots, and now I can go and travel again to wherever you want me to go.'

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Anything that gives us pain can be transformed into this, into beautiful moments shared with friends.

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I had to learn about patience, to let the music get its own spirit and voice.

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That always happens. I start working while on vacation.

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I learned that life is about living and enjoying and all of that made me connect to music in whole other level.

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I think nowadays it's very important to re-connect with ourselves and our roots.

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Los Macorinos are much older than I am so when you surround yourself with older people you realize they lived what we're living now. They live in a moment of peace because they don't have to prove anything anymore.

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I wanted the music to sound, like, made in Mexico. I wanted to connect to my roots.

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Sometimes the music will tell you where to go. And when you find that place I believe is when you're just connecting to the feelings and the heart and the people you're with.

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I really want to become, like, a composer for my people, my country that will photograph the things that are happening now in story and in life and love but not only, like, the love of a couple, you know, the love in general.

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The Macorinos and me - there's a big space between our generations. The people I was used to work with, we will do everything faster. And the Macorinos were more, like, calm. They were patient with music, and they were paying a lot of attention to the details.

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I'm a singer, songwriter from Mexico.

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Tus Ojitos' is an incredible and romantic Peruvian waltz; I tried to make it appear that the heart is singing.

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I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to figure out how to arrange the things that I write.

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I don't like making things too complicated when writing songs. I want to write in a very easy language that many people will understand.

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Coco' is a really amazing movie. The research was made with so much respect. I enjoyed the movie because I know about what they are talking about. I am really proud to be part of the film.

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