Flamenco Quote of the Day

The great artists of the south of Spain, whether Gypsy or flamenco, whether they sing, dance or play, know that no emotion is possible unless the duende comes. They may be able to fool people into thinking they have duende--authors and painters and literary fashion-mongers do so every day--but we have only to pay a little attention and not surrender to indifference in order to discover the fraud and chase away their clumsy artifice.

Federico Garcia Lorca from "Play and Theory of the Duende"

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

We now live in a global consumer society which is becoming more competitive all the time and has nothing to do with the deeply-rooted art of flamenco. For this reason society promotes and creates dancers straight out of the laboratory who persist in a continuously banging percussion where the melody and spirit of each dance is canceled out by the mechanical effect of cuts and closings accompanied by karate shrieks after each desplante. But that's not all. They go on with their fake exits and allusive fade-outs, spurred on by a spurious percussive 'cajón' whose overbearing loudness and strength renders any sort of subtlety useless, and all for the sake of applause.

Mario Maya/Bailaor

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

"Every time I hear a Gypsy singing a deep song with all his body
and all his soul, I feel he is asking me a question to which I have
no answer."

Mikis Theodorakis

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

If I don't come in this life
I will come in death.
I will walk to every tomb
until I find you.

Si no me vengo en 'via'
me vengare en muerte;
como andare 'toas' las
sepulturas hasta que
te encuentre.

Seguiriya/Traditional

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

"I hear them talking about Manuela Carrasco... her majestic presence, her way of being, dancing forty years, suffering...and now these fools come along and do a few turns in their nightgowns and they want to take over the world. What unbelievable gall! I just call it like I see it."

Farruquito/Bailaor 2003

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

Why have you sent me a gift of
seven sets of silverware?
I would have been content
with one small wooden spoon
for the time when you loved me.

Fandangos Grandes/Traditional

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Flamenco Quote of the Day

"To be Flamenco is to have another skin, other passions, other desires. It is a different way of seeing the world, with music in one's nerves, a fierce pride, happiness mingled with tears; it is a loathing of routine and sameness; it is to be intoxicated in song, wine and kisses; it is the translation of life into an art of caprices and of freedom." ___Tomas Borras

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