Rosalia Quotes

Rosalia

Profession : Singer

Birth : September 25, 1993

As a teenager, I remember Missy Elliot: seeing how she carried herself, made her music, and presented herself as an artist. That strength inspired me. If my work can do the same for others, I feel very grateful and proud of that.

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I can't control anything that happens after the creative process because after that it's not yours anymore, it's everyone else's.

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Winning a Grammy is the best thing that can ever happen.

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I wanted to establish my musical legacy and honor the classic sound of flamenco in the most traditional sense.

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Clearly, there is an audience that doesn't enjoy what I am doing because it isn't traditional.

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My music would make no sense without flamenco.

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I have big dreams, but if God would've told me that I had to sing in a local bar in Barcelona, and that that would be my life, that would be my life, I would've done it with the same passion.

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I would always change my Barbies. I'd cut their hair, paint on tattoos, and create new clothes for them. I would invent elaborate stories: fights, dramas, successes. I would try out my ideas on them. And sometimes they would sing!

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I am rooted in flamenco. At 13, I fell in love with it, but I couldn't sing it. To sing flamenco is like being a kind of opera singer. You have to learn how.

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Flamenco is dark - it's about tragedy and intensity.

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My mom I remember, she used to do so many things, I don't know how she did so many things at the same time, she was amazing.

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When I was 15, 16, I started going to a studio and my biggest inspiration were women, like Lola Flores from Spain or Janis Joplin or Patti Smith.

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I feel like the music I'm doing is very experimental and very radical.

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Flamenco is connected with so many types of music. It has Jewish culture inside, Arabian culture inside, Russian culture inside, Spanish culture inside. It's linked to African music too, because African music has the 'amalgama' rhythms you can find in flamenco. You can find everything in flamenco. That's why it's so beautiful.

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There's never a sound that I think I can't use in my music.

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There's this kind of pressure to be creative or busy most of the time, with lots of activities and progress, and I'm trying to run from that.

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I'm trying to do things that help keep me mentally healthy, and if that includes making music, then great. But I won't lie - there are days when I just watch a show and eat a packet of cookies.

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I was never in a hurry to make my first album. I knew I wouldn't do it until I knew exactly what I wanted it to be.

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For years, I've been so passionate about nail art and about doing my nails constantly, with different nail artists from around the world.

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My sound has always evolved and I hope it continues to do so.

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