Karen O Quotes

• I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

  Karen O

  Believe, Quitter, Following

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

  Karen O

  Years, Band, Certain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.

  Karen O

  Crazy, Fall, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

  Karen O

  Culture, Hunger, Synthetic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is coming from you. There's a total connection -- a true friendship -- and the connection touches the soul completely.

  Karen O

  Horse, True Friend, Soul

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• It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

  Karen O

  Running, Insane, Changed

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

  Karen O

  Art, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm making sure to cover all the bases. Like, I've always wanted a leather jacket like Michael Jackson's in "Thriller" since I was a kid. I'm trying to incorporate a lot of elements of pop culture that I've always revered or was really into when I was young.

  Karen O

  Kids, Trying, Culture

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

  Karen O

  Gears, Steps, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to open up on stage.

  Karen O

  Stage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

  Karen O

  Struggle, Artist, Vacation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  Karen O

  Pain, Risk, Promise

  "Karen O’s Psycho Opera Will Be A ‘Psychedelic Ride Laced With Catharsis’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

  Karen O

  Missing, Style, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.

  Karen O

  Water, Adults, Embarrassing

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• Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul.
  Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed.
  Was this recorded this century? Or out of a basement that's she's been imprisoned all her
  life? Time to set her loose on the world. I'm so happy she exists. Set me free Mary!

  Karen O

  Artist, Self, Giving

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• I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

  Karen O

  Self, Years, Self Destructive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

  Karen O

  Ignorance, Dark, Zeppelins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  Karen O

  Bass, Aces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a complete outsider in high school.

  Karen O

  School, High School, Outsiders

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  Karen O

  California, Space, Relaxation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being on the road with rock, its pretty much 90 percent guys.

  Karen O

  Rocks, Guy, Percent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

  Karen O

  Records, Sophomore, Difficult

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a personal battle, is much more than just feeling good about how you look. Beauty Bus gives its clients renewed internal strength to keep fighting.

  Karen O

  Home, Fighting, Ideas

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• I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

  Karen O

  Taken, Kids, Littles

  "Women in Music: Karen O". Interview with April Long, www.elle.com. June 15, 2009.

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• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  Karen O

  Stars, Rocks, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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