A biography for Concha Buikahasn’t been written yet.
“I find inspiration in everything.”
“I'm not scared about saying what I think.”
“I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.”
“Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.”
“I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.”
“It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.”
“I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.”
“Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.”
“They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't want me to sing there anymore.”
“I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.”
“I love house music. I love all music.”
“I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.”
“I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.”
“Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.”
“I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.”
“I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.”