Flamenco Quote of the Day

"Everyone is crazy about the latest novelties in flamenco, without thinking about the treasure that makes flamenco different from every other type of music...FEELING! Looking for new and more complicated melodies has never been the way to more profundity and feeling."

Pedro Bacan/Guitarrista

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

I have a green dress,
green as an olive,
and a flower for my hair,
white as the moon,
and lips for loving you
that taste of warm honey.

Tengo un vestido verde,
verde aceituna,
y una flor pa' mi pelo
blanca de luna,
y pa' quererte unos
labios que saben
a miel caliente.

Bulerias/Alba & Manuel Molina

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

With just a glance
you will understand
how much I love you,
and you will also understand
how much I long to speak to
you but cannot.

Solamente con mirarte
comprenderas que yo a ti
te quiero,
y tambien comprenderas
que quiero hablarte y no puedo.

Solea por Bulerias/Traditional

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

"It's not a question of being taught how to sing. Diego sang with tones before he spoke. Antonio, his eldest brother, played the guitar by the time he was five. My father never let us listen to what most people call flamenco, which is full of rumba and that kind of stuff. I think that's why he took us out of school. School teaches you a lot but it takes things away, too. They made Antonio stand against the wall because he was always tapping out rhythms. They tried to punish the compas out of him."

Dolores Agujetas/Cantaora

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

You are brown and poor,
even browner than
the cinnamon that the nobles eat.

Eres morenita y pobre,
mas morena que la canela
que la comen los señores.

Bulerias/Traditional

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

"I think flamenco singing comes from the first man who fell down and cried "ouch" ("Ay"). Then came the Ay Ay Ay Ay...I believe it must have come from there."

"Yo pienso que el cante flamenco puede haber venido o viene de un llanto... del primer hombre que se cayo y dijo... Ay...y empezo ya.. Ay Ay Ay Ay. Yo creo que eso tiene que venir por ahi."

El Chocolate/Cantaor

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

I don't much like blondes;
they don't know how to kiss.
What I like are dark-haired girls,
'cause from their mouths come kisses
that take away all sorrows.

A mi no me gustan las rubias
porque no saben besar.
A mi me gustan las morenas
porque de sus bocas salen besos
que quitan las penas.

Bulerias/Traditional

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