Top 63 Laura Marling Quotes

#1. I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.

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#2. I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence ... I think.

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#3. Take me somewhere I can grow
Give me something let me go
Tell me something I don't know

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#4. I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

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#5. I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.

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#6. I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

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#7. People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.

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#8. I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

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#9. There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

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#10. Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

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#11. When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

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#12. Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

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#13. I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.

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#14. You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

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#15. There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

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#16. I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone

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#17. I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

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#18. I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

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#19. I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

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#20. I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young,

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#21. I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them.

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#22. I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

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#23. I can't give up that quick
My life is a candle and a wick
You can put it out, but you can't break it down
In the end we are waiting to be lit

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#24. I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

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#25. I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

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#26. It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

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#27. Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

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#28. It's hard to accept yourself as someone you don't desire / As someone you don't want to be.

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#29. My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

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#30. Why fear death? Be scared of living.

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#31. I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

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#32. My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

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#33. I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

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#34. I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

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#35. All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

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#36. I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

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#37. People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

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#38. I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

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#39. I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

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#40. I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

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#41. I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni Mitchell. I concur. The thing that most affected me was just her resonance, and that is something she must have been born with.

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#42. But if i sit here and weep
I'll be blown over by the slightest of breeze

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#43. The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

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#44. I can't do small talk really, and that's fine. I've got old friends and family that love me, thank God. I'm grateful for what a city gives you access to, but I do feel that I'm only here until I figure out how to get out again.

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#45. If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself ... throug h songwriting or other mediums ... I get a bit jittery.

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#46. I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

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#47. I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

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#48. I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

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#49. I find it dull when my heart meets my mind

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#50. I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

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#51. Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love

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#52. A friend is a friend forever
And a good one will never leave, never

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#53. I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

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#54. I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

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#55. Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

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#56. No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

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#57. People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don't do that.

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#58. I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

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#59. I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

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#60. I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

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#61. It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

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#62. I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

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#63. When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

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