This dance is the joy of existence.
Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things.
I tap dance.
There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
I'm versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that's just what it do.
I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
Moving to Dubai at age 9 and then the Congo, they were two completely opposite countries. But that brought me to music and taught me things that I never would have learned otherwise. And it was always about the rhythm in those two countries - that's why I love them.
Music is closer to poetry than anything.
White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.
My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.
Music expresses - you express yourself with music.
I make music for the hips, not the head.
The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.
I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.
If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.
Rap is something you live; hip hop is something you do.
As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
Dance expresses joy better than anything else.
