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Cesária Évora
16 quotes
“This was women’s work around the house, but I didn’t like it, so I came out when I was 13”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fact that I sing about love doesn’t have anything to do with my emotional life. I think I didn’t have a husband because in Cape Verde, when you have a husband, you have a child, two children, three children. Then sometimes if the man wants, he just leaves you and you have to have another man to help you, because you cannot raise those children alone. It’s hard to live like that”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That doesn’t happen to everybody, but it’s common in Cape Verde. That’s why in Cape Verde, women are always fighting for themselves and for their children”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women in Cape Verde are very strong, and we have a fighting spirit.”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m just a simple person. I’m not hard to understand.”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was born in a poor country. I was poor, but I lived all my life with what I had. I didn’t spend more than I had. Cape Verde is not the only place where there are poor people”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now I work, and I see the results of my work, so I have some money,” she says. “But I’m still the same person that I was before. I still have the same simple life. I still have the same friends”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Lifetime of Persistence Brings Cesaria Evora to World Stage,June 25, 2001,By ALONA WARTOFSKY
“Life in the islands is not easy, because there are very few resources, and you could say that my life and life in the islands are related”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I started singing in the neighborhood where I lived, just with my friends... It was just to amuse ourselves”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Cape Verde ... I used to sing for tourists and for the ships when they would come there”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was no real progress,” she acknowledged in Pulse!. “I wasn’t making any money out of it, so I just stopped”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because I couldn’t find anyone to help me out in Cape Verde, I had to start recording in France in 1988”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They’re going to feel my message through my presence and my music”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wasn’t astonished by Europe and I was never that impressed by the speed and grandeur of modern America”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I only regret my success has taken so long to achieve”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Evora, Cesaria 1941,updated May 21 2018,https://www.encyclopedia.com/”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source