Regina Spektor Quotes - Page 2

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• I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

  Regina Spektor

  Ocean, Cities, Way To Live

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

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• God, our world is so complicated.

  Regina Spektor

  Our World, World, Complicated

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kosu.org. October 3, 2016.

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• Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out.

  Regina Spektor

  Needs, Stuff, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.

  Regina Spektor

  Struggle, Kids, Cutting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.

  Regina Spektor

  Emotional, World, Artistic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, People, Finding Yourself

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, kosu.org. October 3, 2016.

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• I think to me, all songs are stories.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Thinking, Stories

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• You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Growing, Way

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, "Oh, I don't think I like this."

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Ready, Guise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the whole fun of them is being able to live in others' consciousness.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Fun, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Annoyed, Comfortable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

  Regina Spektor

  Book, Kind

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• There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.

  Regina Spektor

  Artist, Favorites Things, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.

  Regina Spektor

  Writing, Interesting, Stories

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• You are my sweetest downfall.

  Regina Spektor

  Love, Falling In Love, Downfall

  Song: Samson, Album: Begin to Hope, 2006

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• I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

  Regina Spektor

  Beautiful, Song, Adventure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Writing, Yesterday

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• When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

  Regina Spektor

  Writing, Trying, Want

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

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• I don't really make records chronologically.

  Regina Spektor

  Records

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• I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

  Regina Spektor

  Obsession, 80s

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a full orchestra next to a song that has other things?" I just work on it as-needed.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

  Regina Spektor

  Art, Arbitrary, Art Is

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Never, never mind your bleeding heart.

  Regina Spektor

  Heart, Mind, Bleeding

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, wunc.org. October 3, 2016.

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• I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.

  Regina Spektor

  Dark, College, Mtv

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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