Top 100 Mclachlan's Quotes
#1. Would you mind getting a picture of us?
"Anything for one of Miss McLachlan's fans."
He looks like the cat that swallowed the canary.
"I take some mighty fine pictures of Miss McLachlan, if I do say so myself.
Georgia Cates
#2. I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.
Sarah McLachlan
#3. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#4. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#5. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#6. Never confuse determination with arrogance. Arrogance will look down on you, determination will run over you.
Grant McLachlan
#8. I have never come across so many people going to so much effort to do as little as possible.
Grant McLachlan
#9. I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.
Sarah McLachlan
#10. the line between hunter and hunted can be as small as a single moment of unreadiness.
J.A. McLachlan
#11. I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because I was either too feminist or not feminist enough, depending on who you spoke to.
Sarah McLachlan
#12. People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Sarah McLachlan
#15. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#16. I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.
Sarah McLachlan
#17. Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
Sarah McLachlan
#18. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#19. Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.
Sarah McLachlan
#20. It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.
Sarah McLachlan
#21. There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.
Sarah McLachlan
#22. If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.
Sarah McLachlan
#23. I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.
Sarah McLachlan
#24. I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.
Sarah McLachlan
#25. The endangered Kiwi is aptly New Zealand's icon. There is so much promise to lay a large egg but without the ability to get it off the ground.
Grant McLachlan
#26. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#27. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#28. 'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
Sarah McLachlan
#29. Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.
Sarah McLachlan
#30. When I sing, it's just ... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.
Sarah McLachlan
#31. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#32. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#33. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#34. I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.
Sarah McLachlan
#35. It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
Sarah McLachlan
#36. We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
Sarah McLachlan
#37. Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.
Sarah McLachlan
#38. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#39. One of the only TV shows that I really love is 'Twin Peaks.' Kyle McLachlan plays Agent Dale Cooper, and I love Dale Cooper, so I'm in love with Kyle McLachlan. He could be my dad, so it's really weird.
Jane Levy
#40. Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.
Sarah McLachlan
#41. I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
Sarah McLachlan
#43. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#44. I would prefer to try and fail than to not try at all.
Grant McLachlan
#45. It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
Sarah McLachlan
#46. I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.
Sarah McLachlan
#47. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#48. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#49. There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.
Sarah McLachlan
#50. My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.
Sarah McLachlan
#51. You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?
Sarah McLachlan
#52. I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.
Sarah McLachlan
#53. I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.
Sarah McLachlan
#54. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#55. I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.
Sarah McLachlan
#56. Politicians go to a lot of effort to do as little as possible.
Grant McLachlan
#57. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#58. I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.
Sarah McLachlan
#59. Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
Sarah McLachlan
#60. I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.
Sarah McLachlan
#61. I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.
Sarah McLachlan
#63. The prerequisite for a banker is Strait As and no talent.
Grant McLachlan
#64. Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.
Sarah McLachlan
#65. When you wake up everyday
Please don't throw your dreams away
Hold them close to your heart
'Cause we are all a part of
the ordinary miracle
Sarah McLachlan
#66. I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
Sarah McLachlan
#67. Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.
Sarah McLachlan
#68. We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
Sarah McLachlan
#69. I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
Sarah McLachlan
#70. Engaging irrational people with rational arguments is irrational.
Grant McLachlan
#71. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#72. SPOM: Superficial, pretentious, and obnoxiously materialistic.
Grant McLachlan
#73. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#74. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#75. Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Sarah McLachlan
#76. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#77. The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
Sarah McLachlan
#78. I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.
Sarah McLachlan
#79. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#80. I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way.
Sarah McLachlan
#82. Exceed expectations" is such a lispy term. I hope that it never infiltrates the bedroom or sport.
Grant McLachlan
#83. Straight As might improve chances for a job but talent improves chances of a promotion.
Grant McLachlan
#84. I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
Sarah McLachlan
#85. In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn
Colvin, Sarah McLachlan ... now enter Maia Sharp.
Art Garfunkel
#86. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#87. I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.
Sarah McLachlan
#88. Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, antagonistic, or materialistic ego of the author.
Grant McLachlan
#89. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#90. Hold on ... Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.
Sarah McLachlan
#91. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#92. If you don't have faith in yourself, why would anyone else?
Grant McLachlan
#93. Writing is a master craft in the finest art,
the loneliest profession in the most social science,
the most influential medium in the toughest industry,
yet is the most under-rated profession.
Grant McLachlan
#94. She's gonna know the rooster's in the hen house when she doesn't find me there, so we'd better hurry.
Georgia Cates
#95. I think ... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.
Sarah McLachlan
#96. I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.
Sarah McLachlan
#97. 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.
Sarah McLachlan
#98. I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.
Sarah McLachlan
#99. How can you live with someone if you can't live with yourself?
Grant McLachlan
#100. If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?
Sarah McLachlan
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