Top 100 Juliana Hatfield Quotes
#1. I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.
Margaret Cho
#2. People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.
Juliana Hatfield
#3. If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield
#4. Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.
Juliana Hatfield
#5. Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.
Juliana Hatfield
#6. I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.
Juliana Hatfield
#7. How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you
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#8. I have been a bridesmaid. Fortunately, the outfits were pretty tame. They were cream and black, but I still wouldn't wear them out in public, though.
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#9. I used to be an over-packer! It took me a while to be smart about what I brought with me. I used to tour with a huge bag full of clothes and another one full of shoes because I wanted to have choices. And I ended up wearing the same pair of shoes all the time!
Juliana Hatfield
#10. I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.
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#11. Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.
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#12. If I have to work in McDonalds, fine - I had a really great run and made a living at music for 20 years, and how many other people can say that?
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#15. Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.
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#16. I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
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#17. I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.
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#18. I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.
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#19. I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.
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#20. I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.
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#21. I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?
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#22. I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.
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#23. I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.
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#24. Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.
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#25. Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.
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#26. What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?
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#27. It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.
Juliana Hatfield
#28. Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.
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#29. As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
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#30. Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.
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#31. I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.
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#32. You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.
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#33. At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.
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#34. My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.
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#35. The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.
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#37. I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.
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#38. The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.
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#39. The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.
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#40. A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.
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#41. People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.
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#42. If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.
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#43. When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.
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#45. I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.
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#49. I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.
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#50. David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
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#51. I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.
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#52. I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.
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#53. What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?
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#54. I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me
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#57. My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.
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#58. I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.
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#59. Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.
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#60. Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy ... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.
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#61. To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.
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#63. My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
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#64. My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.
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#67. I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.
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#68. I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.
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#69. I don't need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U.
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#70. I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.
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#71. When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.
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#73. I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.
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#75. I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.
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#77. I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.
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#78. It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money.
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#79. I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
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#80. Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of me, squeezing my guts really hard.
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#81. My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play.
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#83. You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.
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#85. I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.
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#86. In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.
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#88. It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.
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#89. Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.
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#91. Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.
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#92. You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.
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#93. My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.
Juliana Hatfield
#94. My friend Phil Morrison directed a lot of my favorite videos back in the mid- to late-90s - all the Yo La Tengo videos that were funny, a Juliana Hatfield video. He was such an influence with me, and I wanted to do a video the way Phil used to do videos. I did that for Phil.
Tom Scharpling
#98. My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
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#99. I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.
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#100. I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.
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