Top 100 Tegan And Sara Quotes
#1. Relax, Amy, I'm not gay. I just like Sleater-Kinney. It's possible to like them and be heterosexual. It's not like I invited you to go see Tegan and Sara.
Emily Gould
#2. As far as long-term goals, one of my favorite artists ever is Tegan and Sara, because every single one of their albums sounds different. Or Beck. I want to be like that because I come from so many different types of musical backgrounds.
Shamir
#3. Even before people knew us as Tegan and Sara, we were stared at and studied. We've been different our whole lives. It started with being twins and then being gay and then being musicians, so we've had 32 years of dealing with being fringe people.
Tegan Quin
#4. Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine.
Sara Quin
#5. So I'm gonna write it down to scream it out, and I'm never gonna be the same again. Fear is the color you've all exposed, now I gotta get up here and prove the importance of my clothes of my pose. I suppose, again.
Tegan Quin
#6. Sometimes it feels like I'm all that they've got. It's so hard to know I'm not what they want.
Sara Quin
#7. I don't know how
No don't know to hold you
Without shaking
No I'm not aware of how
I could possibly love you
Without aching
Tegan Quin
#8. Around this world will I be enough?
From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama blues
I am nothing if I'm not with you.
Sara Quin
#9. So they're looking for a new face, with a voice to go along. I can tell you right now that ain't my style. I don't do no sing alongs, with my freedom.
Tegan Quin
#10. If you're a sports star and you say 'faggot' on the courts, you get fined. But if you're in music and you say it 234 times, you get an MTV music award.
Tegan Quin
#11. In the back of your car I feel like I have traveled nowhere.
Sara Quin
#12. You slip your hands inside my pockets.
Tell me nothing else would do. Without me, you can't live. And, you slip your heart into my chest. They both become one of the strongest pairs when strangers come.
Tegan Quin
#13. I was a fool for love, I was a fool.
Tegan Quin
#14. I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.
Sara Quin
#15. I'm stripped and vital, and I see rules that almost fit. And if I voice my opinion, will you stay and sit? And as I stand here screaming in despair, I say yes this is my life and yes you should care.
Tegan Quin
#16. Take my heart while you're at it why don't you sign me up to sell me out.
Tegan Quin
#17. Hardly happy at all, and I'm ready to take the fall. We pay for the stupid things we've done where I come from. Can you sit through this? Or is it gonna be too deep?
Tegan Quin
#18. Most women look at magazines and then they just feel bad about themselves but Sara looks at magazines and she's all like I can get with her.
Tegan Quin
#19. I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?
Sara Quin
#20. Climbed up on the rainbow
Just to see if I'd fall off
Tegan Quin
#21. All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another.
Tegan Quin
#23. I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness in your voice, I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness inside you.
Tegan Quin
#24. There's something so divided, Don't worry about me I'll be fine, Don't live your life for me or for anyone. Live your life as if you're one.
Tegan Quin
#25. I feel you in my bones. You're knocking at my windows. You're slow to letting me go. And I know this feeling, This feeling in my bones.
Tegan Quin
#27. A letter to send to you and if I forget, or god forbid die too soon, hope that you'll hear me,know that I wrote to you.
Sara Quin
#28. Fine, tell them who you think you are. Fine, tell them fine is what you are. And when you finally figure out what it is you need, you better think of me.
Sara Quin
#29. Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.
Tegan Quin
#30. All of the things that you promised me that you'd be, now your hands are tired.
And all of the things that you promised me that you'd need, now my hands are tired.
Tegan Quin
#31. Okay you found me out. Beyond without a doubt, your lie is safe with me. A friend, i'm sure you are. And on this day so far, I've fallen hundred see?
Tegan Quin
#32. He sat me down. He said he was incomplete. He thinks true love's gonna get him back on his feet. He said you only find love once in your life. So I guess when you find it you're gonna hold it right? You'll hold it right?
Tegan Quin
#33. Don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better till you get worse, yeah you send a little smile my way. And don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better til you get worse, yeah you send a little love my way.
Tegan Quin
#34. Where do you go with your broken heart in tow? What do you do with the left over you? And how do you know, when to let go? Where does the good go, where does the good go?
Tegan Quin
#35. You've got the freedom to walk out if you drag you down. You've got the freedom to walk out, If they drag you down. If they drag you, If they drag you. Walk out.
Tegan Quin
#36. I love Sara's music and there's no one else i'd rather share a face with and I try to remember that I actually enjoy being around her.
Tegan Quin
#37. I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart. I want to give directions, helpful hints. What you'll be looking for.
Sara Quin
#38. The muscles fought so long
To control against the pull of
One magnet to another magnet
Sara Quin
#39. I would go to jail with only boys. Just to prove I was as tough as you. And when I get out for good behavior, I'll be writing love songs. Silly banging knee songs.
Sara Quin
#40. Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don't exist.
Tegan: I just thought they were extinct.
Tegan Quin
#41. I cried so hard that you pushed me further away. I screamed so loud you called the police on me. I got so city girl on you.
Tegan Quin
#42. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow.
Tegan Quin
#43. No I'm going to hold you anyway
And I'll do it without shaking
Yes I'll love you always
And I'll do it without aching
Yes I'd give you anything
Yes I'd give you anything
I gave you everything
Tegan Quin
#44. Every second I spend waiting,
Drags me closer to this grave.
I'm not alone.
No, I'm just on my own.
Tegan Quin
#45. I wake up exhausted it's not morning. It's back to sleep to re-dream me. We're alone and we're happy. But there you are, angry with me
Tegan Quin
#46. We're strangers, we're not friends. I hate this, and I hate them.And I found out that you're angry, and you're sorry you ever met me
Tegan Quin
#47. Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one.
Tegan Quin
#48. Feeling like I am now lighting up the hall. I was used to standing in the shadow of a damaged heart.
Sara Quin
#49. When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And ... that's ridiculous, but so am I.
Tegan Quin
#50. The night still confuses me, we'd all get tired and have to sleep eventually. Regardless of the sun's demands. Regardless if it made much sense.
Tegan Quin
#51. Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come.
Tegan Quin
#52. I feel like I wouldn't like me if I met me and I feel like you wouldn't like me if you met me.
Tegan Quin
#53. Might paint something I might want to hang here someday, might write something I might want to say to you someday, might do something I'd be proud of someday. Mark my words, I might be something someday.
Sara Quin
#54. Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I'm all alone. I'm still missing you, missing you, missing you.
Tegan Quin
#55. Will you ever use common sense, I hear it comes pretty cheap. And if I speak more clearly, if I make more sense. Will you shut your mouth. You won't come across so dense. Close your eyes and then you free your mind.
Tegan Quin
#56. I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know.
Sara Quin
#57. I'll get right on right about you, you've got trouble right about now, you've got trouble right about now.
Tegan Quin
#58. This is me before I come undone. This is me before I fall apart. I've been tired for days and days. I've been tired for days and days.
Sara Quin
#59. Endless nights took on my whole life. Or so I thought. It turns out that all your friends, they were just mean, dressed up.
Tegan Quin
#60. So let's make things physical,
I won't treat you like you're oh so typical
Tegan Quin
#61. I miss you now, I guess like I should have missed you then.
Sara Quin
#62. I got uncertain from this, I'll be perfect from now on. But all my promises, they're out the window once you're gone. You pack your bags. You say I love you but I cannot stay.
Tegan Quin
#63. There's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do. I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do.
Tegan Quin
#64. How can they ask why I feel so angry? Do you see my problem if I never explain it?
But then there's you asking me how long. Say something, it's taken me so long.
Tegan Quin
#65. I've been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.
Sara Quin
#66. You've got your lights turned so they can see you. The very best of what you've got to offer.
Tegan Quin
#67. I hope I never figure out who broke your heart and if I do, if I do. I'd spend all night losing sleep. I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind. Well I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind.
Sara Quin
#68. Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?
Sara Quin
#69. All I want to get is a little bit closer
All I want to know is, can you come a little closer?
Here comes the breath before we get a little bit closer
Here comes the rush before we touch, come a little closer
Tegan Quin
#70. That's the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and you're not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you don't deserve it.
Sara Quin
#71. I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave. I never walked the party line, but that doesn't mean that I was never afraid. I'm not your hero, but that doesn't mean we're not one and the same.
Sara Quin
#72. I won't mistake you for problems with me. I won't let my moods ruin this you'll see. I won't take everything good and move it away. I won't be left dancing along to songs from the past.
Sara Quin
#73. Imagine you're so far away no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you couldn't stop the world for a moment.
Tegan Quin
#74. Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at.
Tegan Quin
#75. If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning?
Tegan Quin
#76. It's not just all physical
I'm the type who will get oh so critical
Tegan Quin
#77. Sara and I both have this very self-deprecating, almost abusive way of looking at ourselves. We both feel like we can be very destructive and very pessimistic and very tortured and very weak, but in a weird way those are some of our best qualities.
Tegan Quin
#78. I'm the type of girl,
When you fall in love,
You fall forever.
Tegan Quin
#79. I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.
Sara Quin
#80. Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out.
Sara Quin
#81. The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate.
Sara Quin
#82. It could have been a month or, It could have been a year, But I, I gave up long before, Long before you cared.
Sara Quin
#83. I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven't changed who they are for the music business.
Mary Lambert
#84. You went away. Cause you said that you can't stand me. So I went away. I was sure that you can't stand me. Well I don't think we have to be like this forever. Is there more to life than love and being together?
Tegan Quin
#86. I used to be free spirited, now I'm just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me.
Tegan Quin
#87. Go (please stay), Go (please stay), Go if you want to,I can't stop you. Just go if you want to I can't stop you.
Sara Quin
#88. I close my eyes I make myself unhappy so you'll go. Without me, oh what's wrong with you?
Sara Quin
#90. No matter whether you're a gay or a mixed race couple; when you're drawn together, ultimately it doesn't matter what everybody thinks because it's so honest, true, and sincere. How can that be wrong?
Tegan Quin
#91. I have always felt this
And I, I could never hear it
So I turned it up
And turned it on
And turned it down
Always the volume always the words
Sara Quin
#92. I am disappointed every morning that I wake up. And I am disappointed by the feeling Of waking up next to you.
Tegan Quin
#93. I was used to feeling like I was never gonna see myself at the finish line.
Hanging on to parts of me, hanging on at all. I was used to seeing no future in my sight line.
Sara Quin
#94. I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe.
Tegan Quin
#95. Why do I take this lonely road, nobody here to walk with me? So I start fresh all over again why won't you just comfort me?
Sara Quin
#96. If you've got it to give, You've got to give it all. If you've got it to give, You've got to give it all. Oh give it all to me.
Tegan Quin
#97. Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it's terrifying to people and they think you're a monster.
Sara Quin
#98. No matter which way you go . No matter which way you stay. You're out of my mind, out of my mind.
Sara Quin
#99. This week or last week, I don't really care about it anymore. I write myself this later, I tell myself you let me go.
Sara Quin
#100. I'm still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you.
Tegan Quin
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