Regina Spektor Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This is how it works
  You peer inside yourself
  You take the things you like
  And try to love the things you took
  And then you take that love you made
  And stick it into some
  Someone else's heart
  Pumping someone else's blood.

  Regina Spektor

  Love You, Heart, Blood

  Song: On The Radio, Album: Begin to Hope, 2006

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• We're living in a den of thieves

  Regina Spektor

  Thieves, Dens

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• I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

  Regina Spektor

  Insanity, Process, Shows

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

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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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• You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

  Regina Spektor

  Mind, Headphones

  Song: Eet, Album: Far, 2009

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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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