Top 99 Sara Bareilles Quotes
#2. I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.
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#3. Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts.
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#4. I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.
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#5. I love the morning time - a cup of coffee and to sit at the piano, that's probably my favorite time.
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#6. So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?
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#7. Where we learned we could make each other laugh, and sometimes that's all you need to know about a person to know that being friends is a good idea.
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#8. My dance move has seemingly turned into push-ups. Sometimes, especially if I've indulged a little bit in an evening, it's not out of the ordinary to find me, for some reason, doing push-ups. That seems to be my go-to dance move.
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#9. Never mind what I knew, nothing seems to matter now
Ooh, who I was without you, I can do without
No one knows where it ends, how it may come tumbling down
But I'm here with you now
I'm with you now
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#10. I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.
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#11. I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.
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#12. The music industry can feel wonderful, but it can also feel very cold.
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#13. True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.
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#14. I think we're at a really rich and fertile time in the zeitgeist about paying attention to diversity of all kinds - racial diversity, gender diversity, making room for a continuum that is more inclusive.
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#15. My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.
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#16. I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.
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#18. I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.
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#19. Good stuff gets worse and bad stuff gets better, so you're better off to spend a little time making friends with all of it.
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#21. Your a lovely creation, I'd like to think that I am too. My friends said I look better with out you.
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#22. Relax. Everyone is going to love you! Just get out of your own way.
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#23. I definitely get a little antsy when I haven't had a good fix!
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#24. I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.
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#25. You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
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#26. Let the world come rush in
Come down hard, come crushing
All I need is right here beside me
I'n not enough, I swear it
But take my love and and wear it over your shoulders
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#27. Just speak your truth, it's an important cornerstone of how your life ends up sort of unfolding in front of you. Even if it's painful, if it's honest, it's going to bring you to the place you deserve to be.
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#28. I got really into rock - soft, romantic rock was my jam.
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#29. The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.
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#30. There are so many wonderful classic roles, but I also would be really interested in developing something brand new. I think my heart would probably be in developing something brand new; I think that sounds really exciting.
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#31. We can understand the sentiment you're saying to us
Oh,
But sensible sells so could you kindly shut up
And get started
At keeping your part of the bargain aw please
Little darlin'
You're killing me sweetly with love love love love
Love love love love
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#32. In the morning it comes, heaven sent a hurricane
Not a trace of the sun but I don't even run from rain
Beating out of my chest, my heart is holding on to you
From the moment I knew
From the moment I knew
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#34. All my life I've tried to make everybody happy while I just hurt and hide, waiting for someone to tell me it's my turn to decide.
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#35. I think it's one of those things about live performance - anything goes, anything can happen, and you have to just be ready and able to roll with the punches.
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#36. My whole heart
Will be yours forever
This is a beautiful start
To a lifelong love letter.
Tell the world that we finally got it all right
I choose you.
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#37. And if you say we'll be alright
I'm gonna trust you, babe
I'm gonna look in your eyes
And if you say we'll be alright
I'll follow you into the light
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#38. Never say never - I certainly have those dreams, and I hope that it happens at some point,I hope I get to see those stage lights.
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#39. Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.
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#40. I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?"
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#41. My request was for courage. To turn and face the thing that scares you the most and do your best to stay there. I asked for honesty, which sometimes requires more strength than most things we do in our lives.
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#42. The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.
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#43. Things evolve into other things. Emotions do the same. Forever. Your best ally in all of these shifting seas is your faith in the fact that you are exactly where you are supposed to be.
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#44. And so here we go bluebird,
Back to the sky on your own.
Oh, let him go bluebird,
Ready to fly,
You and I,
Here we go.
Here we go.
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#45. I was struck by what kept her in place, her fear of hurting him. It reminded me of my own darkest moments, waking up one day, looking around, and not recognizing your own self, because you have given too much of that away.
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#46. I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'
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#47. I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.
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#48. I'm that person who owns all of the seasons on DVDs, including the Lifetime intimate portraits showcasing The Golden Girls. I am a massive fan. I think I'm Dorothy. She's my favorite.
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#49. The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'
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#50. I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.
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#51. My personal best seems the most accessible to me when I am being as honest as I can be. At this point in my life, I am attempting to make choices that move me toward what feels authentic, while saying yes to things that make my gut feel spooked with possibility.
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#52. No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.
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#54. I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.
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#55. Started as a flicker, meant to be a flame. Skin has gotten thicker, but it burns the same. Still a baby in a cradle, got to take my first fall ... baby's getting next to nowhere with her back against the wall.
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#56. Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you live
Maybe one these days you can let the light in
Show me ... how BIG your BRAVE is!
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#57. All the colors
Of the rainbow
Hidden 'neath my skin
Hearts have colors
Don't we all know?
Red runs through our veins
Feel the fire burning up
Inspire me with blood
Of blue and green
I have hope
Inside is not a heart
But a kaleidoscope
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#58. I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.
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#59. I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really open to whatever possibilities present themselves.
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#60. Always be chasing the sun. All we can do, is try, and live like we're still alive.
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#61. You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.
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#63. There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.
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#64. My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.
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#65. I'd like to think I could physically manage doing that, but I don't think it feels authentic to the kind of performer that I am. I think that, for me, being stationary and just sort of singing the songs seems to be the most connected and authentic expression for me on stage.
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#67. One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.
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#68. Does anybody know how to hold my heart
How to hold my heart?
'Cause I don't want to let go, let go, let go too soon
I want to tell you so before the sun goes dark
How to hold my heart
'Cause I don't want to let go, let go, let go of you
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#69. I love the morning time. There's something about having the day in front of you.
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#70. You love the chase, but hate me for the run around
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#71. I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.
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#72. It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes
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#73. Time did what it always does: softened the hard edges
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#74. Here's a simplification of everything I'm going through: You + Me is bad news.
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#75. I go straight for Seinfeld, Modern Family, Friends, and Golden Girls. Those are my pillars of strength on TV.
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#77. I think that's my hope for a lot of the feminist movement is that the gender thing sort of stops being the selling point, if that makes any sense. We're just people making art, and that's how this process has felt to me.
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#78. I feel like I'm on the precipice - just seeing a better version of me coming out.
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#80. Set me free, leave me be, I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity, here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be, but your onto me, your all over me.
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#82. I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.
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#83. If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.
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#84. I work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it's something that I'm now paying attention to - to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board.
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#85. I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.
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#86. You hold me without touch, keep me without chains, never wanted anything so much, then to drown in your love, and not feel your rain
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#87. We're always making everything slightly more difficult than it needs to be, aren't we?
Oh, us ...
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#88. When I look back, I was so mean to myself, and I was so uncomfortable in my own skin. I still feel that very loudly sometimes, but to try and really nurture that sense that you are your own friend.
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#89. The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.
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#90. My emotional hangover was thick and thorny and I felt antsy, wanting to crawl out of my own skin. I had hoped I would sleep off those weird, crazy feelings and wake up "normal," but my melancholy was everywhere and I couldn't pretend otherwise.
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#91. It's very exciting to be a part of a team of collaborators in general.
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#92. But you neither friend nor foe, though I can't seem to let you go, the one thing that I still know is that your keeping me DOWN!
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#93. Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.
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#94. I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.
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#95. I hope these essays have been comforting to someone reading it if for no other reason than to watch me openly admit I have no idea what I'm doing. I suspect most people feel that way, even if they don't fess up.
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#96. You loved me cause I'm fragile. But I thought that I was strong. Well, you touch me for a little while, and all my fragile strength is gone!
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#97. If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.
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#98. I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.
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#99. Something always brings be back to you, it never takes too long
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