Top 100 Sarah McLachlan Quotes
#1. In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.
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#2. Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
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#3. I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.
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#4. Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.
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#5. I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
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#6. I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
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#7. We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
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#8. Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.
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#10. I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.
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#11. Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
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#12. Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
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#13. I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.
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#14. I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.
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#15. If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?
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#16. I've never dieted in my life; I like food too much. I'm just thoughtful about what I eat, and I'm lucky that I love the taste of vegetables. I'm certainly not 'actress skinny,' and I never will be. I'm strong, and my body works great for me.
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#17. I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.
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#18. I think ... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.
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#19. It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
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#20. Hold on ... Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.
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#21. The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
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#22. I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me.
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#23. I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way.
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#24. There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.
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#25. I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.
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#26. I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.
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#27. Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.
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#28. Running is very rhythmic, and I have written a lot of lyrics while out running. It's a very musical exercise, and sometimes I like to sing when I run. Your whole body is doing the same thing.
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#29. I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.
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#30. I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.
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#31. It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.
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#32. Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.
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#33. It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.
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#34. Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
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#35. I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.
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#36. I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.
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#39. People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
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#41. I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing.
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#42. For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you've created and put out there in the world has had some sort of impact on other people's lives.
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#43. I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.
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#44. The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.
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#45. My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.
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#46. There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.
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#47. Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.
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#48. I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors.
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#49. I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.
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#50. It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
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#51. We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.
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#52. Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.
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#53. I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.
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#54. I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.
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#56. I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.
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#57. All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.
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#59. I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
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#60. If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.
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#62. Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you ...
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#63. You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.
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#64. I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.
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#65. I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
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#66. Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried.
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#67. I'll answer anything ... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.
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#68. I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.
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#69. And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.
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#70. I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.
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#71. I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.
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#72. I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.
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#73. There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?
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#74. Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.
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#75. In the arms of the angel, fly away from here ... you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the arms of the angel, may you find some comfort here ...
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#76. Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light
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#78. I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.
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#79. A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live.
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#80. We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
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#81. It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
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#83. If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.
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#84. I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.
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#85. We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.
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#86. I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
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#87. Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I won't fear love. And if I feel a rage I won't deny it. (I won't fear love.
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#88. Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.
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#89. You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one.
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#90. The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in the moment. I'm part of this beautiful world, and it's fantastic, and I don't really know how else to describe it.
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#91. I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.
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#92. When I sing, it's just ... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.
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#93. Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.
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#94. They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.
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#95. I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.
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#96. Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.
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#97. Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight
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#98. 'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
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#99. I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to.
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#100. I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.
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