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 TraoreI think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm working on an album or a new project, I'm not all the time thinking about what the audience will think about it.
Rokia TraoreI'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 TraoreYou can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you think you are unique, you will come back to something that existed before you were doing what you are doing.
Rokia Traore