Quotes About Keren

#1. I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

Keren Ann

#2. I knew I could never clean away this memory. We were stained and spoiled forever.

Keren David

#3. I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.

Keren Ann

#4. When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

Keren Ann

#5. I don't have a favorite place to play.

Keren Ann

#6. when someone dumps you, it's heartbreaking and insulting and horrible, sure, but being the one who breaks up is almost as bad.

Keren David

#7. Like, like, like. My confidence grew with each click.

Keren David

#8. It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

Keren Ann

#9. If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.

Keren Ann

#10. Always assume your assailant is armed (even if you can't see a weapon, or have disarmed them of one), always assume they are as good as you, and always assume that they have third parties nearby who can come to their assistance.

Gershon Ben Keren

#11. You consume me. I want to drink you down, lick you up and savor every last drop of you.

Keren Reed

#12. I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

Keren Ann

#13. Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

Keren Ann

#14. It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little and big. They can come up with inventive solutions others would never think of.

Keren Woodward

#15. I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

Keren Ann

#16. I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

Keren Ann

#17. I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.

Keren Ann

#18. I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

Keren Ann

#19. Maybe there's no such thing as real truth, just lots and lots of different ways of explaining the same thing.

Keren David

#20. A world where everyone tells lies all the time is like a world where everyone carries a knife. You think it's going to help you, but it only makes things worse.

Keren David

#21. I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

Keren Ann

#22. Einstein also knew the dangers of taking this step. That he understood the physics of nuclear weapons was beyond question, but he could claim no equivalent understanding of international affairs. As he later famously remarked, "politics is more difficult than physics."1

Michael Keren

#23. And that's how we got arrested at the Stinkerlaas parade'.

Keren David

#24. The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art ...

Keren Ann

#25. I like the fact that there is challenge.

Keren Ann

#26. Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Keren Ann

#27. I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.

Keren Ann

#28. It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

Keren Ann

#29. It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

Keren Ann

#30. I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it.

Keren Ann

#31. When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

Keren Ann

#32. You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.

Keren Ann

#33. So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

Keren Ann

#34. Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

Keren Ann