Cat Power Quotes

#1. I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

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#2. Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's what relaxes your subconscious. That's why everyone from animals to humans love music.

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#3. I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.

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#4. I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.

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#5. I need to be able to face things.

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#6. I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

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#7. I've always dressed like a dude.

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#8. I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

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#9. I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.

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#10. Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

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#11. Oh I do believe
In all the things you see
What comes is better
Than what came before

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#12. From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

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#13. Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

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#14. I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.

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#15. Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

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#16. We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

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#17. People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.

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#18. I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

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#19. We can all be free
Maybe not with words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind

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#20. Never give up, no, never give up
If you're looking for something easy
You might as well give it up.

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#21. Nobody considers a covers record an album.

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#22. I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

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#23. There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don't invalidate me.

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#24. If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

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#25. I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.

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#26. I am human and I make mistakes.

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#27. I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

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#28. Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

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#29. People and their religions don't affect me.

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#30. After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

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