Top 21 Patti Scialfa Quotes
#1. For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person ... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
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#3. I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
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#4. People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.
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#5. I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls, and they felt safe with me.
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#6. You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
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#7. When I write songs I write for myself ... I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.
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#8. There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music.
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#9. Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.
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#10. With any long-term relationship, you have good days and bad days.
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#11. You come to the city, and you have a chance to find out who you really are.
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#12. We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.
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#13. My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band.
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#14. You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?
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#15. I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
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#16. I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way.
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#17. I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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#18. All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.
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#19. I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.
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#20. When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.
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