Natalia Lafourcade Quotes

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.

I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Is it true that we must accept the music of another race as being that which is American? Have not the white Americans sufficient individuality to develop a characteristic style of composition.

Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.