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Chico Buarque [1944-0] Brazilian
Rank: 106
Musician, Singer


Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda, popularly known simply as Chico Buarque, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet.


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I'm an amateur.
101
I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.
102
Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.
103
Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.
104
Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
105
Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.
106
Most people know my music but will never read my books.
107
Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.
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