Yamagata Quotes

#1. I'm at the point in my life when I'm ready to have a baby. Something real in a crazy world.

Pia Zadora

#2. I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.

Rachael Yamagata

#3. Funny how being in opposition to something tends to inspire tireless picketing and cleverly worded signs, while support rarely arouses that level of productivity.

Fred Venturini

#4. Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.

Rachael Yamagata

#5. I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

Rachael Yamagata

#6. There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.

Rachael Yamagata

#7. My own brain. When I get it out of the way, I'm fine.

Rachael Yamagata

#8. I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

Rachael Yamagata

#9. He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

Horace

#10. Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift.

Rachael Yamagata

#11. The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

John B. S. Haldane

#12. Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.

Rachael Yamagata

#13. So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"
"That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future ... you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me ... what choice do you want to make now?

Jonathan Maberry

#14. If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send ... and you must live.

Park Gye-Ok

#15. Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world.

Rachael Yamagata

#16. If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.

Eric Samuel Timm

#17. Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.

Rachael Yamagata

#18. I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

Rachael Yamagata

#19. So for those of you falling in love,
Keep it kind, keep it good, keep it right.
Throw yourself in the midst of danger,
But keep one eye open at night.

Rachael Yamagata

#20. In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?

Rachael Yamagata

#21. I do have faith that something better is always coming for you.

Rachael Yamagata

#22. A person that is strong laughs even in the face of despair.

Ishio Yamagata

#23. Shoot Dr. Allen on sight and dissolve his body in acid. Don't burn it.

H.P. Lovecraft

#24. I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love

Rachael Yamagata

#25. People who are unwilling to make mistakes or have made mistakes and have not yet learned from them are those who wake up each morning and continue to make the same mistakes

Robert Kiyosaki

#26. It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I get attention for it, whether it's on stage or in life - I have sort of a love-hate relationship with all of it. That makes me feel really stark naked.

Rachael Yamagata

#27. Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.

Rachael Yamagata

#28. If you hold on to certain things that are comfortable and maybe a bad pattern for you psychologically, then you rob yourself of the experience of the next thing that happens when you do start to let go. It's only by trusting that, and by the leaps of faith, that you remember that's true.

Rachael Yamagata

#29. Love could solve everything.

Rachael Yamagata

#30. My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best ... my very best, I set you free

Rachael Yamagata