Ana Tijoux famous quotes

I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making meals, being with your people. It's not only the idea of privacy, it's the beauty of the moment, at a time in the world when everything goes really fast - too fast.
-- Ana Tijoux

#Thinking #Ideas #Space

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.
-- Ana Tijoux

#Kids #Parent #Important

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.
-- Ana Tijoux

#Kids #Boys #Years

I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
-- Ana Tijoux

#Thinking #Needs #Tools

I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.
-- Ana Tijoux

#Song #Creativity #Reflection

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

I always knew I was going to die in space.