I leave you the best phrases about flamenco from great artists such as Paco de Lucía, Vicente Amigo, Pablo Alborán, Antonio Gades, Antonio Canales, Joaquín Cortés or Camarón de la Isla.
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-Flamenco is an art that cannot be lost. -Antonio Canales.
-Flamenco is the deepest culture of our land. -Antonio Canales.
-The mother of flamenco is cante, although the most difficult task is the guitarist who makes the dancer and the singer feel satisfied. -Eva 'La yerbabuena'.
-Flamenco is not a show of strength but of aesthetics, style, charisma and dance discipline. -Matilde Coral.
-The culture of flamenco is felt and carried within and anyone can fall in love with it. -Joaquín Cortés.
-Flamenco has only one school: to transmit or not to transmit. José Monge Cruz.
-Pure flamenco is the avant-garde. -Manuel Morao.
-Flamenco is linked to feeling and emotion. -José Fernández Torres.
-Flamenco is a philosophy, a way of thinking and feeling of an entire people and their historical tradition. -Manolo Sanlúcar.
-Flamenco art can change your life and hook you forever. -Vicente Friend.
-Flamenco is a way of life, where there are passions, pain, sobriety, joy, restlessness, flirtation. -Merche Esmeralda.
-It is very important not to get lost in tradition because that is where the essence, the message, the base is. -Paco de Lucía.
-The fusion can work, although I do not believe in it. In my work with Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin or Al di Meola the music was not flamenco or jazz, it was a fusion of musicians, not music. -Paco de Lucía.
-Twenty years listening to old records and putting things out in my own way, I have made a path for the youth of flamenco. -Island Shrimp.
-He learned from each place he visited: the sardana of Catalonia, the charro dance of Salamanca, the flamenco of Andalusia… that is the culture of a people, a rite, a life, a history that he needed to learn. -Antonio Gades.
-Flamenco drives me crazy. I grew up listening to it, it is my mother music. -Hugo Silva.
-One thing is to stomp and the other to trample the earth. The earth is not trampled on, sounds are made by caressing it. -Antonio Gades.
-Because in this story, especially in flamenco, everything is 'me, and me and me', and if there's a bit left over on the poster, then me too. -Javier Latorre.
-Flamenco dancers have to look for life to be effective because nowadays they lack personality. -Antonio 'The pipe'.
-Now it's tacky to say that you don't like flamenco, and ten years ago it was tacky to say that you did like it. -Antonio Canales.
-Flamenco is something alive and it is also a young art that has many years left. -Antonio Canales.
-From party to party, waiting for a good soul who wants to remember that flamenco exists. Not even in the cafes they love us anymore, when we have always been the queens of the world. -Juana Vargas.
-I am the convergent synthesis of the classical guitar of flamenco and the dizzyingly evolved guitar of modern times. -The Ricardo boy.
-The technique and modulation have been improved, but the flamenco voice lacks personality. -Paco de Lucía.
-For me flamenco is everything. It is my life, my profession, what I like. -Island Shrimp.
-An extract of fire and poison, that is flamenco. -Antonio Gades.
-The flamenco of the gypsies has nothing to do with flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex. -Klaus Kinski.
-The connection of what I do with flamenco lies in all the lamentation, in all the crying, in the torrential return of energy to earth. It is a cry and a celebration. -Savion Glover.
-Flamenco is the most important culture we have in Spain and I dare say that in Europe. It is incredible music, it has a great emotional force and a rhythm and an emotion that very few European folklore possess. -Paco de Lucía.
-Flamenco is always a shame, love is a shame too. Deep down, everything is a pity and a joy. -Island Shrimp.
-The great thing about flamenco is its restraint. It does not explode, but there is an enormous energy, sensuality and eroticism that vibrates all the time, but there is also austerity, asceticism. -Antonio Gades.
-The flamingos don't know why, but they do. And it is very simple. They seek the defense of the voice against the stress of singing flamenco. -Alfredo Kraus.
-Tell me, what is a Galician doing in Cádiz dreaming bulerías? April 10, I saw her dance flamenco and it changed my life. -Andrés Suarez.
-She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing in the moonlight with the flamenco guitar. -Janet Fitch.
-I love dance and music from Latin cultures. I went to a flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away. -Torrey De Vitto.
-There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Bocetos de Flamenco" by Miles Davis from the album 'Una species de tristeza'. -Jon Foreman.
-We are a very typical Spanish family: bullfighter, actress, flamenco dancer and singer. -Paz Vega.
-As for the current inspiration, I am listening to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used can be adapted to play the bass. -Billy Sheehan.
-I don't have many actors in my family, but I have a great-uncle who is a filmmaker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were flamenco dancers in the 1930s in New York. -Aubrey Plaza.
-I don't like listening to flamenco singers because they break their voices and this hurts me. I like the other forms of flamenco, dance, which is a very strong art, and the guitar, like that of Niño Ricardo, for example. -Placido Domingo.
-I did ballet, jazz and flamenco since I was five years old. And my professional career started dancing in musicals. -Jennifer Lopez.
-With flamenco I was transported to a world where everyone is beautiful, because beauty is in everything, in the glorious and ugly; because flamenco celebrates life. -Nellie Bennett.
-Our dances, tango and flamenco, inspire our nights. -Amany Al Hallaq.
-The boy who sang flamenco does not have the face of a person, he has the face of a domestic animal, of a dirty beast, of a perverted corral beast. -Camilo José Cela.
-María stomps her feet, a ruffled skirt like those of flamenco. -Beryl Dov.
-I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco'. -José González.
-I have to experiment much more musically, travel and continue studying. I really want to do different things, and you never know, because as music is infinite and changes every day, I don't know if tomorrow I will study flamenco or play heavy. The good thing about music is discovering it. -Pablo Alboran.