Quotes by Jain - Page 1

We shouldn't be scared of love.
Jain /
Love
Scared
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You may hear from my fabulous accent that I'm French!
Jain /
Fabulous
Accent
French
Hear
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My music would be very, very different if I haven't traveled.
Jain /
Traveled
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I'm someone who is quite shy, and onstage I'm quite... extrovert.
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Shy
Extrovert
Onstage
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I started to write my songs when I was 15 and living in the Congo.
Jain /
Congo
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I just wanna write about what I am living as a citizen. That's all.
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Wanna
Citizen
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I could never imagine ever in my life that I'd be on the side of The Louvre.
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Imagine
Louvre
Life My Life Never
Side
Could
Ever
My Life
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I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.
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Pursue
Realised
Stage
Liked
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Well, the thing is I always listened to American music way more than French music.
Jain /
American Music
Music Always Way
Music Way Always
Listened
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Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved.
Jain /
Percussion
Yearning
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I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.
Jain /
Southwest
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My favourite place was in The Congo. It's where I began to write songs and build myself as an adult.
Jain /
Congo
Favourite
Favourite Place
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When I was very young, I just loved the idea of tapping on stuff, so I was always making a lot of noise.
Jain /
Noise
Stuff
Tapping
Young
Loved
Idea
Making
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What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation.
Jain /
Appropriation
Always Culture People
Culture People Always
Mix
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Music is like my secret garden. It's where I heal myself from every pain that I feel. It's like a therapy.
Jain /
Garden
Heal
Therapy
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Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa.
Jain /
Appropriation
Problem
Africa
Life My Life Big
Big Problem
Cultural
Invent
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My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.
Jain /
Connecting
Travelling
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I quietly work with my computer on the tour bus, and then I wait to make my more natural rhythms when I get home.
Jain /
Home
Computer
Natural
Work Home More
Wait
Quietly
Rhythms
Tour
Tour Bus
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For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.
Jain /
Opportunity
Dubai
My Own
Music Opportunity Me
Created
Learn
Thoughts
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I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up.
Jain /
Dubai
France
Abu
Influences
Mix
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When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.
Jain /
Class
Moved
Nine
Passing
Drum
Saw
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I grew up in a family where, when we listened to music everybody would dance, so for me that's a very natural thing to do.
Jain /
Family Music Me
Listened
Natural Thing
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Music is open-minded and has always travelled, every country takes something from another, and that's what makes the richness of music.
Jain /
Richness
Music Country Always
Travelled
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My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child.
Jain /
African
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Sometimes people stop me on the street and they say 'when are you going to make the next 'Zanaka' and it's what I really didn't want to do.
Jain /
Me People Sometimes
Street
Me Street People
They Say
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When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and not so much a French one.
Jain /
Bob
Marley
French
Soul Music
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I think it's hard when you're a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to make your own space and fight for it.
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Feminine
Industry
Masculine
Music Industry
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I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.
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Sad
Hopeful
Therapy
Myself Where Me
Sad Myself Me
Happier
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It's really important because it's how you present yourself to people, and for me it's an act of respect, you know? To get dressed for the people who came to the show.
Jain /
Dressed
For The People
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Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it.
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First Time
Shock
Change Time People
Cultural
Different People
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I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because my parents were listening to a lot of African music.
Jain /
Rhythm
Music Me Parents
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I thought it was beautiful to be able to forgive and give love and to fight only with flowers. So I created the idea of a 'Souldier,' which is like an army guy but fights for love.
Jain /
Able
Army
Guy
Fights
Idea
Fight
Forgive
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Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing it, and they explain that you are doing it the wrong way. And yeah, it's always super frustrating.
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Frustrating
Wrong Way
Yeah
Work Always Your
Explain
Sing
Super
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Moving from Dubai to the Congo was one of the best things that happened to me, it's a shock to be confronted by the contrast in wealth and culture, and it's hard, but I loved it and it influenced me a lot.
Jain /
Contrast
Dubai
Shock
Wealth
Confronted
Influenced
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I'm from a little town from the south tip of France, to be able to play in Coachella and meet other artists from all over the world and to connect with people that I love from my hometown is something amazing.
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Hometown
Love Amazing World
Little Town
Tip
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At 16 I was living in the Congo, and, you know, it's your teenage time. I really wanted to find a way to express myself, so I started to write songs in the Congo, and I think that's why my music is quite open, with a lot of different influences.
Jain /
Congo
Teenage
Time Music Myself
Express
Influences
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I've been to India, Jordan, South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Australia, Madagascar, Oman, The States, and a lot of countries in Europe, just to visit... I wanted to make music to connect all of these influences, and make a multicultural music with these experiences.
Jain /
Australia
Europe
Jordan
Multicultural
South Africa
States
Africa
Connect
Countries
Experiences
Influences
Visit
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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.
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Age
Congo
Dubai
Moving
Rhythm
Taught
Love Music Always
Opposite
Love Age Music
Why
Brought
Countries
Learned
Otherwise
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