Flamenco Quote of the Day

I'm going to embroider 
your name in the tresses
of my hair, with little colorful
threads...
so you will see how much
I love you.

Voy a bordar tu nombre
en la trenza de mi pelo,
con hilillos de colores...
pa' que veas como
te quiero.

Bulerias/Alba & Manuel Molina

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

They can call me to
serve God and king,
but no law can order
me to leave you,
I would rather be
condemned to die.

A mi me podran llamar
a servir a Dios y al rey,
pero apartarme de ti
no me lo manda la ley
mejor consiento morir.

Fandangos Grandes/Traditional

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

"To truly understand what flamenco is, you must know the cante very well. Flamenco is born in the cante, and if you take the experience of cante away from young people, they're left with no roots. They're left with empty musical forms, and when they build on them, they build without understanding the emotional substance that characterizes and differentiates the various forms."

Manolo Sanlucar/Guitarrista

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

The evening dresses herself
in topaz and basil.
The girlish moon, temptress,
rises from behind the mountain,
and the air is perfumed with
jasmine, lemon and bitter almond.

Above is sky,
beneath it the tree,
and further below, the water.

La tarde se esta vistiendo
de topacio y de albahaca.
La luna, niña y coqueta
se asoma tras la montaña,
y el aire huele a jazmin
a limon y almendra amarga.

Arriba el cielo
abajo el arbol
y mas abajo el agua.

"Dedicado a Jose" (Camaron de la Isla)
J. Manuel Flores

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

Flamenco dancing is concentrated downward, toward the ground. The most intense energy right on the spot, tied to the earth, stamped into it...Psychic energy is transformed into physical, Tellurian energy. Catharsis is achieved in flamenco when body and earth are joined...The dance roots itself in the earth, as though drawn there by some powerful magnet...The important play of arms in flamenco dancing, especially by the females, is a desperate attempt to lift themselves in the air as though on wings.

Claus Schreiner/Author

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

Comb your hair with my comb, for my comb is made of sugar; Whoever combs his hair with my comb, will suck on his fingers.

Péinate tú con mis peines, que mis peines son de azúca;  Quien con mis peines se peine, hasta los deos se chupa.

Tangos Flamencos

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

Paco de Lucia, world-famous flamenco guitarist, on being asked what he remembered most about his first tour with Jose Greco, replies...

"I only accompanied. I was the third of three guitarists: Ricardo Modrego, Manolo Baron and me. I learned many things then. I was open...at that age you are open to everything, and I was very happy. It was a very happy time in my life. I remember that we had to make a kitchen in the hotel rooms. We bought inexpensive food in the supermarkets and cooked in the rooms. We were thrown out of many hotels...kicked out...because we had fried tomatoes all over the walls...garlic smells, things like that." (laughs).

1994

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