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Stromae

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 12, 1985

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.

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I'm not so radical about Twitter, but I think it's sometimes dangerous if you think that Twitter is real life.

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Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.

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I was talking in an interview about how I would love to have a ballerina flat for men. Repetto heard about it and decided to create one. It's almost like a slipper.

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No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.

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I think a lot of people want to blame their fathers for not being good enough when they were growing up. I think it can be an excuse for not coming to terms with your own problems.

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It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.

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There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it's like, if you're Belgian pretending to be American, you won't be better than the American because you aren't American. You have to do your own stuff.

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I don't want to have success to have success.

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I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.

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The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

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If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.

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I have some English words on the first album, but any time I try to do it, you miss something. You think it's just a simple translation from French to English, but it's so different as far as the understanding.

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I think that's our problem in Europe: we used to be a bit negative on everything. That's good sometimes, but when it's too much... It's not good.

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Who decided that when you dance you don't have to think?

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I'm not making music for intelligent people or dumb people. I'm just making music for people.

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I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

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There are so many reasons to be sad in the club.

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In Belgium, we know the U.S. culture through the television, but it's not the truth. It's interesting to see that Philadelphia is really industrial. I love industrial cities. Everybody hates them, but I think they're the best places to be creative. The more gritty it is, the more I love it.

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When I was a teenager, I was maybe a little bit angry.

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