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I'm not a real producer, so if someone asks me to produce, it's only because they like my sound. I'm not a professional, all I have is my own way of doing things, my little tricks.
- Manu Chao
#Doing
#Me
#Real
#Sound
#Way
You never know what little idea or joke, what flame flickering really quickly, will become a song. That first idea, it can come any time. If it's in Spanish, you go on in Spanish. If it's in French, French. If it's in English, English. Or Portuguese. I'll try to do my best. I like Italian, though I don't speak it much.
- Manu Chao
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#Flame
#Song
#Speak
#Time
Success is something good, and something bad. I don't know if it's good to always go after success.
- Manu Chao
#Bad
#Good
#Know
#Something Good
#Success
For me, the more I think about the problems of the world, I feel I have to be positive. I wouldn't like to fall into cynicism or nihilism. That's not in my nature.
- Manu Chao
#Me
#Nature
#Positive
#Problems
#World
I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.
- Manu Chao
#Big
#Born
#Care
#don't Care
#Happy
A CD is only a snapshot of the songs at a given time.
- Manu Chao
#CD
#Given
#Only
#Snapshot
#Time
I love going to sleep in one city and waking in another.
- Manu Chao
#City
#Going
#I Love
#Love
#Sleep
I was raised in France, and the American culture was present everywhere. On TV, on the radio.
- Manu Chao
#American
#Culture
#Present
#Radio
#TV
The capitalist system is out of control. Everybody should be their own leader. In our own lives and families and neighbourhoods, we can find solutions to live together in a more soulful way. Everybody can do it. That's what I try to do in my neighbourhood.
- Manu Chao
#Control
#Find
#Live
#Together
#Way
I was in a bar in Rio and a cow walked in, I looked into its eyes, and I saw such tranquillidad, serenity. Then I started seeing cows everywhere. I realise why the Indians worship them.
- Manu Chao
#Cow
#Eyes
#Seeing
#Serenity
#Why
What 'Clandestino' is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.
- Manu Chao
#Borders
#More
#Problems
#Talking
#World
It's stupid, just because I was born with a French passport, I have the right to travel all around the world, but if I was born in Mali, or Venezuela or Bolivia I couldn't.
- Manu Chao
#Born
#Right
#Stupid
#Travel
#World
I write new lyrics as I'm traveling and I like to record in the place where I had the original idea. Sometimes I rerecord when I get back to Barcelona because I have more-power studio there.
- Manu Chao
#Back
#Lyrics
#New
#Place
#Sometimes
Immigration of people has been important for the story of this planet, to make what is today.
- Manu Chao
#Immigration
#Important
#People
#Today
I learnt in South America and in Africa that people who have really big problems in the ghetto always keep a sense of humour and remain positive. If not, you go down.
- Manu Chao
#America
#Big
#Ghetto
#Positive
#Problems
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