Top 45 Stromae Quotes

People like Brel were sensitive and vulnerable; on stage, they dared to take risks.

I’ve learned how to trust someone else’s ideas with mine.

It’s my job to be ridiculous.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It’s funny at the same time as it’s sad.

I think it’s about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep their own language just to bring something else, something different, and show a different vision of the world, actually. And that’s why I’m trying to keep my language.

Music is more than words. It’s a visual experience, too, and people really feel my music because of the way I move and put on a show.

I was also so happy to learn how to do the Djatence. Djatence is when you show your clothes off in the street – it’s something between a dancing, showing off, and trying to get attention turned on you. It was a really cool experience with people who are more refined than I could imagine.

I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time.

Success is a gift, but it’s a handicap at the same time, I think.

I’m a composer like every maestro on this earth.

There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it’s like, if you’re Belgian pretending to be American, you won’t be better than the American because you aren’t American. You have to do your own stuff.

I already visited Rwanda when I was five, but I don’t really remember my roots.

I have four or five custom suits, including one that’s velvet, and a gray one I wear onstage. It’s wool.

I don’t want to have success to have success.

Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I’m also really logical when I compose.

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I’m sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.

I’m trying to stay normal, that’s all. But it’s hard.

Maybe I just look at things as a humanist: I like looking at people in a realistic way more than looking at them in a positive way.

I always have the same problem when I try to buy something straight off the rack: If I put on a medium, it’s perfectly fitted in the torso, but the sleeves are too short. If it’s a large, the sleeves are long enough, but it’s too baggy. So made-to-measure suits are especially important for me because I’m 6’2” and so skinny.

It’s a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.

Who decided that when you dance you don’t have to think?

I was raised in Brussels as a Belgian but, at the same time, feeling that I wasn’t necessarily from here.

When I’m on stage, that’s a job. It’s acting, it’s faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes – I’m pretty good in this – dancing, just to entertain.

If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I’m sure of it.

No genre of music is better than another, whether it’s country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It’s all music.

We are proud of our ridiculousness. That’s what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think that’s my definition of Belgium.

I think a lot of people want to blame their fathers for not being good enough when they were growing up. I think it can be an excuse for not coming to terms with your own problems.

I think that’s our problem in Europe: we used to be a bit negative on everything. That’s good sometimes, but when it’s too much… It’s not good.

I’m just like a photographer or a director. Of course I have an opinion, but I don’t think my opinion, or what I want to say… is so obvious ’cause that’s not my job. My job is just to give a point of view, not more than that.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language – you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

The first time I performed on stage, that was almost the first concert I went to, so that was pretty interesting and a bit weird at the same time.

I’m not so radical about Twitter, but I think it’s sometimes dangerous if you think that Twitter is real life.

My father is black – was black. My mother is white.

I always need a reason to do something on stage, for me. I am not judging anyone: there is not a good way; there is not a bad way. You just have to justify everything.

We are all human, and we are all able to listen to music that we cannot understand. I used to listen to English music like Notorious B.I.G., and I didn’t know what he’s talking about in all of his tracks, but I’m a fan. It’s rhythm and a groove that makes me dance, so I’m convinced that my music can work in the U.S.

I’m sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.

I was a big fan of G. Dep!

You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.

It’s good to think about real life, no? Because real life isn’t just dreams and happiness.

I’m not making music for intelligent people or dumb people. I’m just making music for people.

Everyone should have a suit that’s really well fitting – if a suit just doesn’t fit, it looks ridiculous. It can purposely be too large or too small, if that’s what you want, but it has to fit with your image and personal style.

I’m just part of the people.

Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can’t talk about everything easily.

I have some English words on the first album, but any time I try to do it, you miss something. You think it’s just a simple translation from French to English, but it’s so different as far as the understanding.

The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that’s really Belgian. I think I’m really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That’s my problem, actually.