Florence Welch Quotes

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• If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

  Florence Welch

  Mistake, Heart, Whole

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• I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

  Florence Welch

  Creativity, Expression, Ideas

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• I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.

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  Healthy, Trying, Daydreaming

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• Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Sadness, Soul

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• I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear.

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  Ocean, Tree, Sound

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• Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

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  Funny, Regret, Blessing

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• Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

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  Kind, Sometimes, Attractive

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• Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.

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  Eye, Worst Nightmares, Nightmare

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• I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping.
  When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.

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  Lying, Kids, Jumping

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• You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

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  Should Have, Expectations, Expectations Of Yourself

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• I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

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  Beautiful, Real, Thinking

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• Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with affection. I’m really lucky to be able to be in some of these situations and it feels really nice to be able to take people along with me for the ride. Oh, and I’m a pain in the ass as well.

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  Pain, Nice, People

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• For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.

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  Running, Dog, Eye

  "Florence and the Machine's 'GMA' Concert: Five Fun Florence Facts" by Katie Kindelan, abcnews.go.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

  Florence Welch

  Mean, Love Is, Madness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

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  Running, Creating, Personality

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• I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.

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  Artist, Everyday Things, People

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• I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Names, Different

  "Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine: An EW Q&a". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, ew.com. September 13, 2010.

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• It's always darkness before the dawn.

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  Darkness, Dawn, Darkness Before The Dawn

  "Song: 'Shake It Out!'". 2011.

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• I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.

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  Feelings, Tools, Use

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• The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.

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  Real, Nerves, Life Is

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

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• A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.

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  Dream, Song, Grandmother

  "Florence And The Machine Hint At New Music Inspired By 'Dark Metaphors'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

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  Thinking, Caves, Protection

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• I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

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  Moving, Voice, Style

  "Behind the Scenes with Florence and The Machine: Music Unites Interviews Florence Welch" by Michelle Edgar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 09, 2010.

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• When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

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  Heartbroken, Creativity, Thinking

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• I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.

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  Girl, Growing Up, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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