Top 100 Florence Welch Quotes
#1. I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
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#2. The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
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#3. I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.
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#4. Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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#5. It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
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#6. I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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#7. I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.
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#8. Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.
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#9. Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.
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#10. Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
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#11. I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
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#12. I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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#13. I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.
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#14. I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.
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#15. On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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#16. Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.
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#17. What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.
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#18. Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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#19. I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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#20. The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
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#21. I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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#22. There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
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#23. I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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#24. The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
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#25. I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde.
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#26. I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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#27. I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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#28. I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.
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#29. All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.
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#31. It's good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn't lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.
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#33. I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.
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#34. Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones
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#35. The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.
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#36. I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.
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#37. I don't want your future
I don't need your past
One bright moment
Is all I ask
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#38. Hands up if you're ready to do something you'll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.
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#39. I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
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#40. I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.
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#41. I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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#42. I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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#43. Whispering like it's a secret, only to condemn the one who hears it, with a heavy heart.
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#44. If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.
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#45. I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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#47. I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.
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#48. I can't worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I'd lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it's frustrating for the people around me. I'm vaguely functional, but there's always something slightly off.
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#49. I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.
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#50. During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
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#52. I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.
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#53. There's green eyes in my eyes
And a lover on my mind
And I sing from the piano
Tear my yellow dress and
Cry and cry and cry
Over the love of you
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#54. I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?
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#55. I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.
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#56. When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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#57. This is a song for a scribbled out name
And my love keeps writing again and again
This is a song for a scribbled out name
And my love keeps writing again and again
And again and again and again and again and again and again ...
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#58. When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.
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#59. I've fallen out of favour
And I've fallen from grace
Fallen out of trees
And I've fallen on my face
Fallen out of taxis
Out of windows too
Fell in your opinion
When I fell in love with you
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#60. I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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#61. I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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#62. You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.
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#63. I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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#64. I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.
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#65. When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
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#66. It's hard to dance with the Devil on your back, So shake him off.
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#67. When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you ... I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.
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#68. A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.
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#69. I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.
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#70. Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.
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#71. The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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#72. The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It's like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it's so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can't let it sit inside me.
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#74. I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.
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#75. You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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#76. Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To give me some relief
Because falling's not the problem
When I'm falling I'm in peace
It's only when I hit the ground
It causes all the grief
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#77. I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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#78. I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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#79. If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.
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#80. I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.
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#81. I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
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#82. You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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#83. Where's my heart at? Aw. Um, in my chest. I think it's in there - on the right hand side. Sometimes it's in my mouth and sometimes I can feel it in my stomach, when I get really nervous. So it's pretty physical.
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#84. It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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#85. When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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#86. I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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#87. I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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#88. The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.
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#89. I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom ... I don't think that it's healthy.
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#91. I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.
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#92. Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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#93. Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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#94. 'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We've got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves.
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#95. I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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#96. I can see the green light
I can see it in your eyes
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#97. I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.
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#98. 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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#99. I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.
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#100. If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.
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