Top 41 Lauren Mayberry Quotes

#1. For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to read about yourselves or looking up things about yourselves on the Internet - it's the key, or you'll go insane!

Lauren Mayberry

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#2. The idea was that the record itself ['The Bones Of What You Believe' ] is a kind of labour of love for us - all our energy and all our passion and all the stuff we believed in is in that record, so you're kind of handing that off to other people, if that makes sense.

Lauren Mayberry

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#3. I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

Lauren Mayberry

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#4. I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.

Lauren Mayberry

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#5. I enjoy working with people. That seems simplistic, but whenever I'm distressed, angry, and want to feel like something can be done about something, it feels better when you surround yourself with people.

Lauren Mayberry

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#6. I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

Lauren Mayberry

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#7. Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

Lauren Mayberry

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#8. Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

Chip Conley

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#9. In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

Barry Humphries

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#10. I feel like I would need to investigate and get some local tips. I think if I've learned anything from being on tour, it's that sometimes things you see in the guidebooks are stereotypically the best things to do, but there's no substitute for local knowledge on that stuff.

Lauren Mayberry

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#11. I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

Lauren Mayberry

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#12. Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.

Lauren Mayberry

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#13. I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

Lauren Mayberry

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#14. My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.

Willis Earl Beal

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#15. I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

Lauren Mayberry

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#16. I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.

Lauren Mayberry

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#17. I think a lot of things that people think are complimentary are a little bit condescending, but then we just have to keep doing what we're doing, and being in the band is the important bit.

Lauren Mayberry

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#18. Enjoy the sacred moment while it lingers.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#19. Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

Lauren Mayberry

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#20. I don't know Justin Bieber so I wouldn't want to marry a man I don't know.

Lauren Mayberry

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#21. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us.

Patrick Rothfuss

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#22. This is an era of violent peace.

James D. Watkins

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#23. If you're always scared of dying," Obispo had said, "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either.

Aldous Huxley

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#24. Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

Dalai Lama

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#25. Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

Joseph Campbell

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#26. Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.

Count Basie

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#27. I love the hamster but I think if I took him on tour he might die.

Lauren Mayberry

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#28. Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

Lauren Mayberry

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#29. A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

Faina Ranevskaya

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#30. I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

Lauren Mayberry

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#31. I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."

Lauren Mayberry

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#32. No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula ... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

Lauren Mayberry

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#33. One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants.
Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging.
Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary.
-Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

Lauren Myracle

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#34. My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.

Lauren Mayberry

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#35. If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

Lauren Mayberry

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#36. A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

Lauren Mayberry

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#37. Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

Lauren Mayberry

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#38. It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.

Lauren Mayberry

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#39. I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a small room and you can't get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect - I think it's quite nice.

Lauren Mayberry

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#40. She's just this character to you. Both of us are! And we always have been. You don't know what goes on in our heads. You don't know where we come from or who we are . . . Can you even tell the difference anymore between what you've written about her and who she really, truly is?

Kristopher Jansma

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#41. I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

Lauren Mayberry

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