Big Freedia

Musician

100 Quotes

I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.

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

There's no such thing as 'sissy bounce.' We don't separate it here in New Orleans at all. It's just bounce music. Just because I'm a gay artist, they don't have to put it in a category or label it.

Everyone has a butt. No matter what size it is, you can work it.

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

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

I'm steady trying to make this bounce stuff mainstream and do some wonderful and great things for the culture of New Orleans.

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.

When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.

Twerking is just limited to a certain, specific dance where it's hand on the knees and you're busting open. With bounce music, we do a whole lot more and everyone is so unique in the way that they move and their personality.

First and foremost, I'm human. I'm a person.

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

I was young so when I had that job at Burger King, I was still in high school and I just needed to help out my mom. And help myself because I needed to buy some of my clothes. I did that for about three years and I had became a shift manager working at Burger King, doing my thing. I was young and excited to make my own money.

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

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.

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

No one can predict what God is going to do.

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

People should be able to do what they want in life and not be judged or put in a box or a category.

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.

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