Regina Spektor Quotes - Page 4

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• I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

  Regina Spektor

  Eyelashes, Sweat, Perfect

  Song: Folding Chair, Album: Far, 2009

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• I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Jobs, Nice

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

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• I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Done, Records

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

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• I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

  Regina Spektor

  Sound, Band, Records

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

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• I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.

  Regina Spektor

  Want, Way, Chance

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

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• It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

  Regina Spektor

  Body, Very Good, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'

  Regina Spektor

  Love You, Car, Boards

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

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• You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

  Regina Spektor

  Fun, Hate, Fall

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

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• Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

  Regina Spektor

  Phones, Might, Phone Calls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.

  Regina Spektor

  Nice, Kissing, Rocks

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• I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

  Regina Spektor

  Writing, Mind, Tools

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

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• I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Glasses, Perfect

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

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• Its not like I have all the answers.

  Regina Spektor

  Answers

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• Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

  Regina Spektor

  Jars, Pickles

  Song: Reading Time with Pickle, Album: Songs, 2002

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• Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water

  Regina Spektor

  People, Water

  Song: A cannon

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• I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Thinking, Taste

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• [A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Real, Thinking

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• I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Hate, Book

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• It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

  Regina Spektor

  Artist, Care, Privilege

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• I feel like there's just so much of everything that I don't know what people have heard and what they haven't heard. I think with the fact that there's the Internet and that people can share home-made recordings, I think a lot of the songs do get to be heard, even if it's not the best quality, or there's clinking glasses or it's just piano and voice, people can at least hear the song.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Home, Thinking

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• If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the ones that are on records.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Ipods, Records

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• I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Math, Play

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• I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

  Regina Spektor

  Knitting, Names, Piano

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• Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a Billie Holiday song? I'd say, No, it's my song. The lyrics would be in my style, but the songs would be very jazzy.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Holiday, People

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• Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three years or something like that, it's just not enough to put all the songs that I have, no matter how much I put.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Years, Two

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