Words matter. These are the best Yolandi Visser Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It was hard to write or compose… we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we’ll throw away 10.
I’ve always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It’s not a statement; it’s just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it’s got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
I am Afrikaans. It wasn’t ever something that I thought about.
People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga.
People are flying you places in business class. Everyone wants to take pictures of you and find out information about you. It’s a freak-out. But the more you push boundaries, the more you get ahead.
It’s weird how people were always asking us, ‘Are you real? Are you joking?’ That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can’t answer the question ‘Are you real?’ If we’re anything, we’re documentary fiction.
Ninja is super-ambitious – more than I am.
Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don’t have a major label, it’s like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.
You can’t get emotional about your work.
Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren’t able to function in it.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can’t do that.
Our music’s got flavor; it’s got skill. And we present it really well.
You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it’s a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.
For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
How do you open up? I didn’t know how to.
You can’t try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don’t know me. You’ll never understand me.
