Regina Spektor Quotes - Page 3

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• It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.

  Regina Spektor

  Parent, Watches, Painful

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really didn't like it, and I left it and it was just gathering dust for years. Then maybe five years later, the world shook as I read it.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Dust, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

  Regina Spektor

  Animal, Want, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important.

  Regina Spektor

  Boredom, Annoyed, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• 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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• I just love fiction. I love it.

  Regina Spektor

  Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed.

  Regina Spektor

  Optimistic, Light, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Albums, Statistics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have the coolest parents.

  Regina Spektor

  Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

  Regina Spektor

  Processing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

  Regina Spektor

  Baby, Art, Careers

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.

  Regina Spektor

  Hard Work, Slacker, Organize

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, "This record is much more mature than your other record" and I would think, "Well, this record has more songs from when I was 18 on it than the other one."

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Thinking, People

  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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• 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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• When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overwhelmingly, my tribes are the surrealists and the storytellers, in song and literature.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When I walk through the city, I just think that I see my family. I see us in everybody, you know? I see us.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Cities, My Family

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Play, Fans

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• The world that has made us can no longer contain us

  Regina Spektor

  World, Made

  Song: Consequence of Sounds, Album: Songs

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• No one laughs at God in a hospital.

  Regina Spektor

  Laughing, Hospitals

  Song: Laughing With, Album: Far, 2009

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• It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Real, Writing

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

  Regina Spektor

  Cities, Space, Giants

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

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• We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating

  Regina Spektor

  Cheating, Faithful, Trying

  Song: Hero Of The Story

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• No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.

  Regina Spektor

  Laughing

  Song: Laughing With, Album: Far, 2009

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