Quotes from Stromae
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.
— Stromae
I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.
— Stromae
I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.
— Stromae
I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.
— Stromae
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.
— Stromae
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.
— Stromae
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time.
— Stromae
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.
— Stromae
I'm trying to focus on my job. I don't think that being famous is a job. My job is composing, singing, performing, but not being a star.
— Stromae
Music is like a medicine.
— Stromae
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.
— Stromae
It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.
— Stromae