Shakira Quotes


"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
- Shakira
(Related: Life, Fight)

"Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover."
- Shakira
(Related: Love, Heart, Effect, Songs, Writing)

"Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish."
- Shakira
(Related: Challenge, English, Songs, Spirit, Want, Writing)

"My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you."
- Shakira
(Related: Love, Affection, Respect)

"Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry."
- Shakira
(Related: Running)

"It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent."
- Shakira
(Related: Life, Talk, Water)

"You're a song written by the hands of God."
- Shakira
(Related: God, Song)

"I'm Colombian and nothing will change that."
- Shakira
(Related: Change, Nothing, Will)

"Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself."
- Shakira
(Related: Heart)

"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
- Shakira
(Related: Truth, Lie, Heart, Pretty, Ugly, Will)

"I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know."
- Shakira
(Related: Woman)

"I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia."
- Shakira
(Related: American, Trying)

"I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to."
- Shakira
(Related: Women, Rights)

"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."
- Shakira
(Related: People, Reinventing)

"I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that."
- Shakira
(Related: Love, Art, Clothes)

"I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with."
- Shakira
(Related: Love, Children, Day, Parents, Want)

"My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words."
- Shakira
(Related: Artists, Care, Fact, Reflection, Responsibility, Songs, Words)