Top 31 Emily Haines Quotes
#2. Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to acutally live take a lot of courage.
Emily Haines
#3. Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.
Emily Haines
#4. It's a strange life ... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.
Emily Haines
#5. I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.
Emily Haines
#6. I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
Sam Crawford
#7. I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.
Emily Haines
#8. I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.
Marilyn Manson
#9. I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that ... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.
Emily Haines
#11. I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.
Jason Mraz
#12. Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.
Emily Haines
#13. I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.'
'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish?
John Green
#14. Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.
Emily Haines
#15. Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
BD Wong
#16. It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.
Emily Haines
#17. The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'
Ariel Gore
#18. [When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.
Emily Haines
#19. Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.
Emily Haines
#20. The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.
Emily Haines
#21. For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.
Emily Haines
#22. The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.
Emily Haines
#23. Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. Oh. C'mon, pretty girl. I like it when ya scream." The leader breathed into my ear.
I spat as good as I could on his hand. He jumped back glaring. I said, "Funny. You like it when I scream? Yet you cover my mouth!" I laughed then winced.
J.L. Clayton
#25. The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.
Emily Haines
#26. McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.
Fred Perry
#27. I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas.
Emily Haines
#28. For a while a person is a junkie and a bartender or a junkie and a father or a junkie and a thief, but after a while he's just a junkie.
Daniel Polansky
#29. Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.
Emily Haines
#30. A book is like a present you can open again and again.
Anonymous
#31. It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.
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