Flamenco Quote of the Day

Why did I sell you so cheap,
horse that I loved so much?
Today I have extra money
and will buy you back,
for ten times what I sold
you for.

Porque poco te vendi
caballo que tanto quiero?
Hoy que me sobra el
dinero, vengo a pagar
por ti diez veces lo
que me dieron.

Fandangos Grandes/Traditional

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

Think of the case of Saint Teresa of Avila, that supremely 'Flamenca' woman. 'Flamenca' not because she caught a bull and gave it three magnificent passes (which she did!) and not because she thought herself very lovely in the presence of Fray Juan de Miseria, nor because she slapped the papal nuncio...but because she was one of the few creatures whose duende...not angel, for the angel never attacks...transfixed her with a dart and wanted to kill her for having stolen its deepest secret...the subtle bridge that unites the five senses with the raw wound.

Federico Garcia Lorca/Poet

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

I was saying yesterday evening
that there was no such thing as
a good woman.
I turned my head and saw
my mother standing there...
I began to weep from sorrow.

De que no habia mujer buena
iba diciendo ayer tarde.
Volvi la cara pa' atras
y me encontre con mi madre...
de pena me eche a llorar.

Fandangos Grandes/Traditional

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

"Flamenco is still alive. Flamenco is nowhere near being dead. Flamenco is still very, very much alive...and mostly with the people from the streets who carry the pure art inside of them."

"El flamenco sigue vivo. El flamenco no esta muerto para nada. El flamenco sigue muy muy vivo, y mas con la gente que es de la calle, en los que lleva la pureza dentro."

Rafael Maya "El Cable"/A Complete Flamenco Artist from the barrio of La Macarena in Sevilla

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

Juan Breva

Juan Breva tenía
cuerpo de gigante
y voz de niña.
Nada como su trino.
Era la misma
pena cantando
detrás de una sonrisa.
Evoca los limonares
de Málaga la dormida,
y hay en su llanto dejos
de sal marina.
Como Homero cantó
ciego. Su voz tenía,
algo de mar sin luz
y naranja exprimida.


Juan Breva

Juan Breva possessed
the body of a giant
and the voice of a young girl.
His trill was like nothing else.
It was that same pain
being sung
behind a smile.
It evoked the lemon groves
of a sleepy Málaga, 
and in his wail lie
aftertastes of sea salt.
Like Homer, he sang
blindly. His voice possessed
something of sea without light
and squeezed dry orange.

Federico Garcia Lorca from 'Poema del Cante Jondo'

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

" I remember Manuel Vallejo, I knew all the singers. He would fasten a guitar string, here on the hand of the guitarist, and when he sang, the string would remain attached to the guitarist's hand. If the guitarist played something Vallejo didn't like, he would pull the guitar player's hand with the string like this (demonstrates yanking it). That was the 'categoria' of the guitarist. The money was for the singer. The guitarist got practically nothing. On records, the guitarist was lower than the singer and the last to be recognized"

Paco de Lucia/World-Famous Guitarrista 1994

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

Your fireplace is sad
because it has no fire.
If you are in need of
wood, cousin,
I'll bring it to you,
I'll bring it to you.

Tu chimenea esta triste
porque no tiene fuego.
Si te hace falta la leña,
primo yo te la llevo,
yo te la llevo.

Tangos/Traditional

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