Top 55 Big Freedia Quotes

I come from the city of New Orleans where it’s live and vibrant.

The bigger artists are definitely looking and paying attention to the culture and the style of bounce music.

The journey after Katrina, it opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. Coming from a rooftop to going to Hollywood and around the world, internationally teaching people about bounce music, definitely God is good and amazing about what he can do with your life.

If I’m just trying to get to different levels… and it takes levels to get to levels, and I just have to do what I have to do to keep on climbing the charts and getting where I need to be.

I like to make everything and I can really cook.

When something get hot, everybody want to jump on the bandwagon and act like they created it.

Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.

Gay folks go to church. We pray to the Lord too.

Being gay and coming up in New Orleans was not easy. At first I was very terrified and very timid.

Real twerkers can use their knees for support.

Me and Drake and all his people hung out. I had the whole club jumping.

I’m a performer, so when I get to any space, I make it my own for that moment and have fun.

The first 10 years of my journey, I was still figuring out who I was, and then I had to redo it all over again when I became bigger. So instead of saying, ‘I’m gay and this is me,’ I started telling the story through my music.

A lot of people think that I am trans but I’m not trans. I am a gay male with hair and nails. So if you say ‘he’ or ‘she’ it doesn’t matter. I know who I am.

I’m over twerking.

I can’t pull back. I’m 6 foot 3, I’m tall, and I’m gay. I light up the room.

I love Red Bull, they support everything that I do. They always support music and they’re always pushing music.

There’s so much fashion out there, and I’m so busy, sometimes it’s even hard to look at TV to see who’s wearing what.

I’d love to work with Snoop Dogg, Skrillex, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar.

Everybody in the world now wants to twerk. We don’t twerk here in New Orleans, we bounce, we wiggle, we wobble, we shake, we bust it open, bend it over, we do it all.

Generally, I cook from the soul and measure by eye, throwing in this and that along the way. But I want to be a certified chef. That’s one of my goals.

Bounce is a primarily call-and-response style of hip-hop over a ‘Trigger Man’ beat. It’s a New Orleans-created hip-hop style that developed in the late ’80s, early ’90s.

I was so big, so I had to always come up with my own creations. Like, when I would do junior prom and stuff, I would have stuff specially made or added to my outfit. I definitely was always into trying to do something a little over and beyond.

I was on subsidized housing for many years before my financial situation changed. I quickly found myself in a new economic structure and, frankly, knew little about how to handle my money.

Definitely practice in the mirror before you attempt it. You have to use your body in the upright position, you can use your knees for support and that’s the only way you can twerk.

I came out at a very early age. I sat my mom down at my 12th birthday party and told her in front of my friends. She said, ‘Baby, mama already knows, and I’m going to love you regardless.’ Once I got my mom’s support, there was nothing else I needed.

You can see yourself in the mirror. You can see how you want your body to move. Everybody wants to look sexy when they’re dancing, so that mirror will be, you know, that reflection of yourself of how you will look in the club, so definitely use the mirror at home.

Duffy is go hard or go home. It’s just a concept that I wanted to have when we’re doing different things. When me and my dancers go in, we usually go hard or we go home. We’re not here to play. We go duffy.

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

I loved listening to music around the house with my mom on Saturday mornings when we would clean up.

I truly believe there needs to be more programs for artists and musicians to teach basic financial literacy and planning. Coming from where I came from, I know that I could have used that kind of assistance.

I draw my strength from my mom, who passed away a few years ago. She taught me from the day I was just a little boy to never give up and be proud of who I am.

Performing has always been a natural part of me.

I still feel like there are so many things that I have to do to really become an icon. I’ve done a lot and laid down a lot of groundwork, but there’s so much more work to be done. There’s a lot more that I want to do, LGBTQ centers that I want to open. After I leave my legacy, then I will be that icon.

My mother was my rock and my inspiration.

Bounce music is uptempo, heavy bass, call and response.

That was one thing my mama instilled in me: to be well trained in the kitchen. Growing up, I was always in the kitchen with her. You name it, I make it: red beans and rice, lasagna, chicken, pork. I am the queen of cooking.

Bounce is taking flight all over the globe. New York especially, and L.A., Canada, Portland, Washington. It keeps getting bigger and bigger.

When I go shopping, I try to specify certain things for certain events, but most of the time, I have so much stuff to pull from at home in the closet.

I’ve always been indie.

I’ve always liked to dance.

The best times I’ve had backstage are when you have people around you who genuinely love you, respect your privacy, and have your back – that’s what it’s all about.

About 1998, my best friend, Katey Red, was the first transsexual male to come out with bounce music. And I background Katey for about two years. And then that’s when the game totally switched when me and Katey jumped in it.

I’ve worked tremendously hard to make things happen for New Orleans culture.

I’m always working and coming up with new and fresh ideas to keep my fans engaged and keep myself relevant.

I feel very accepted, like I never have any slander. I never have any issues. You know, like, when people see me, they respect me. It’s all about how you carry yourself.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the choir girl!

I always try to have my hair and my nails did no matter what. As long as that’s done, putting an outfit and some shoes together, and a little makeup, that’s nothing.

Twerking is definitely from New Orleans.

I’m human, just like everyone else.

I mean you have to work hard to earn respect and make people respect you. When I come to the presence of any room or any place, people give me the most high respects and I’m gracious and appreciative of that.

We have a dance in bounce music called ‘exercising’ where you just open your legs and shake your butt a little bit from side to side.

No one can predict what God is going to do.

I’ve grown in tremendous ways with enhancing my music, my ability to perform on stage and travel all around to spread bounce music. I’ve come so far from being that little black boy growing up in New Orleans to now.