Soca Quotes & Sayings

In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists. — Machel Montano

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach. — Travis Barker

I think why my content does so well with so many different types of people is because it speaks to everyone. I'll make a Soca music reference, I'll use a Tamil word, I'll do a Jamaican Patois accent. I know about all these people, and I'm not afraid to indulge in their culture. — Lilly Singh

I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more. — Peter Jacobson

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse. — Joan Sutherland

My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound. — Meghan Trainor

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music. — Dule Hill

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need. — Henry David Thoreau

I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals. — Rachel Platten

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay

The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld. — Orlando Bloom

Yuh cyah vex when soca playin — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Because every day in my journal I write down the best thing that's happened to me. And today it's you. When
When Johanna said that, I felt light, warm in that spot just above my stomach where it usually feels clenched and tight. — Gary Paulsen

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. — George Eliot