Fernanda Takai quotes

Fernanda Takai quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band.”
-- Fernanda Takai

#Independent Quotes #Band Quotes #Brazil Quotes

“I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.”
“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.”
“Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.”
“Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.”
“You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?”
“Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.”
“A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.”
“I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.”
“There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.”
“Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.”

Source : "Brazil's Gilberto Gil, Minister of Cool". edition.cnn.com. September 01, 2003.

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