Florence The Machine Quotes

#1. I think nobody can explain why some people win and why some people lose. It really doesn't always have to do much with talent. It has to do with how you deal with pressure.

Howard Bryant

#2. Broke your jaw once before
Spilt your blood upon the floor
You broke my leg in return
So let's sit back and watch the bed burn
Well love sticks sweat drips
Break the lock if it don't fit
A kick in the teeth is good for some
A kiss with a fist is better than none

Florence Welch

#3. For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It's such a funny, grandiose idea

Florence Welch

#4. I can see the green light
I can see it in your eyes

Florence Welch

#5. Who is the betrayer/
Who's the killer in the crowd/
The one who creeps in corridors/
And doesn't make a sound.

Florence + The Machine

#6. Fanatics always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.

Gregory David Roberts

#7. When we first came here
We were cold and we were clear
with no colours on our skin
We were light and paper thin.
And when we first came here
We were cold and we were clear
With no colours on our skin
'Till you let the Spectrum in.
--Spectrum

Florence + The Machine

#8. I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

Florence Welch

#9. Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To give me some relief
Because falling's not the problem
When I'm falling I'm in peace
It's only when I hit the ground
It causes all the grief

Florence Welch

#10. I've fallen out of favour
And I've fallen from grace
Fallen out of trees
And I've fallen on my face
Fallen out of taxis
Out of windows too
Fell in your opinion
When I fell in love with you

Florence Welch

#11. This is a song for a scribbled out name
And my love keeps writing again and again
This is a song for a scribbled out name
And my love keeps writing again and again
And again and again and again and again and again and again ...

Florence Welch

#12. Was it really better for human beings to discover more of their pasts? And then more and more ... ? Or was it simply better to know as little of the past as possible and even to forget what small amount was remembered?

Elif Shafak

#13. And I'm so obsessed with my pursuit of the perfect cappuccino that I spent $6,000 on an exquisite La Marzocco coffee machine, which I imported from Florence.

Guy Spier

#14. There's green eyes in my eyes
And a lover on my mind
And I sing from the piano
Tear my yellow dress and
Cry and cry and cry
Over the love of you

Florence Welch

#15. It's always darkness before the dawn

Florence Welch

#16. If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion.

Shane Koyczan

#17. I'd like to work with Florence and The Machine, Little Dragon, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Calvin Harris ... there are so many artists and producers.

Wynter Gordon

#18. Just keep following the heartlines on your hand.

Florence + The Machine

#19. I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.

Lindsay Hartley

#20. I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too. So I stayed in the darkness with you.
-Cosmic Love

Florence + The Machine

#21. Tenderest touch leaves the darkest of marks
And the kindest of kisses break the hardest of hearts.

Florence + The Machine

#22. It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world world, never quite awake.
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber,
Until I realised that it was you who held me under.

Florence + The Machine

#23. It's always darkest before the dawn.

Florence + The Machine

#24. So, gently, and using the greatest of care, the elephant stretched his great trunk through the
air, and he lifted the dust speck and carried it over and placed it down, safe, on a very soft
clover

Dr. Seuss