Florence Welch Quotes - Page 3

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• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  Florence Welch

  Party, People, Social

  "The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

  Florence Welch

  Couple, Order, Healthy

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• When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

  Florence Welch

  Lying, People, Want

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• Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.

  Florence Welch

  Heartbroken, Selfish, Creativity

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• I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

  Florence Welch

  Mother, Thinking, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

  Florence Welch

  Singing, Losing Yourself, Fantastic

  "Florence and the Machine Announce New LP". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 23, 2011.

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• I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

  Florence Welch

  Choir, Obsessed, Overwhelming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Expression, Way

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• You live and you learn.

  Florence Welch

  Live And Learn, You Live And You Learn, You Live You Learn

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

  Florence Welch

  People, Judgement, Stage

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• I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

  Florence Welch

  Jobs, Bangs, Dresses

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

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• I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

  Florence Welch

  Ideas, Bird

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• I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

  Florence Welch

  Two, People, Personality

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• I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

  Florence Welch

  Veils, Way, Irony

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• I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.

  Florence Welch

  Falling In Love, Book, Home

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• I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

  Florence Welch

  Boys, Eight, Years

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• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

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  Sleep, Dark, Light

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• I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

  Florence Welch

  Song, Father, Nice

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• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

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  Feelings, London, Eras

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• The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

  Florence Welch

  Way, Exorcism, Demon

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• Sometimes I wish for falling
  Wish for the release
  Wish for falling through the air
  To give me some relief
  Because falling's not the problem
  When I'm falling I'm in peace
  It's only when I hit the ground
  It causes all the grief

  Florence Welch

  Grief, Fall, Air

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• The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

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  Teenage, Cancer, Caring

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• There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Emotion

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• If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

  Florence Welch

  Hair, Self, Awkward

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• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  Florence Welch

  Beautiful, Dog, Artist

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