Top 69 Regina Spektor Quotes
#1. I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.
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#2. The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'
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#3. Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.
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#4. Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.
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#6. It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
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#7. I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.
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#8. Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
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#9. We're trying to be faithful but we're cheating, cheating, cheating
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#10. And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.
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#12. I'm walking through the city
Like a drunk, but not
With my slip showing a little
Like a drunk, but not
And I am one of your people
But the cars don't stop
And I am one of your people
But the cars don't stop
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#14. I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.
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#15. I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.
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#16. This is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood.
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#18. Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.
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#19. If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the ones that are on records.
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#20. When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.
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#21. And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn't mention us
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#22. Tried to head in the general direction of the bathroom/
The truest room in the whole damn house.
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#23. I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'
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#24. I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
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#26. Taking steps is easy
Standing still is hard ...
Everything is different
The second time around.
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#27. I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord please don't let me be misunderstood.
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#28. Maybe one day you'll understand I don't want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.
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#29. I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.
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#30. I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.
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#31. I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.
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#32. I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved
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#33. I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.
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#34. May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have lost. Let's give them one more round of applause.
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#35. The world that has made us can no longer contain us
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#36. Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.
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#37. I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
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#39. Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a Billie Holiday song? I'd say, No, it's my song. The lyrics would be in my style, but the songs would be very jazzy.
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#40. You're using your headphones to drown out your mind
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#41. Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk
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#42. I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.
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#43. So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.
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#44. Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
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#46. Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.
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#47. I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights ... It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.
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#48. It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.
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#49. Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water
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#51. I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
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#52. I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.
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#53. We keep on burying our dead/
We keep on planting their bones in the ground/
But they won't grow/
The sun doesn't help/
The rain doesn't help.
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#54. Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.
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#55. I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.
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#56. It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.
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#57. Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three years or something like that, it's just not enough to put all the songs that I have, no matter how much I put.
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#58. The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record.
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#59. No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.
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#60. I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.
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#61. This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.
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#63. I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.
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#64. You've spent half of your life
Trying to fall behind
You're using your headphones
Just to drown out your mind.
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#66. I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.
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#67. I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.
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#68. I have my own tastes and I have my my own ... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.
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#69. I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat
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