Chantal Kreviazuk Quotes

• Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Birthday, Waiting, Missing

  Song: Time, Album: What If It All Means Something, 2002

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• I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

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• It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Thinking, Self, Mind

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• To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.

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  Goal, Ambitious, Honest

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• Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

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  Sleep, Night, Two

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• Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

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  Past, Years, Skills

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• The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

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  Song, Nice, Writing

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• If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

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  Born, Born And Raised, Raised

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• If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

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  Song, Want, Moments

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• I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

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  Growing Up, People, Trying

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• I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.

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  Stars, Careers, America

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• I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

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  Writing, Stuff, Emotion

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• Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.

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  Mom, Sleep, Artist

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• Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

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  Children, Weather, Singing

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• And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

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  Real, Winning, Thinking

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• Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Feelings

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• I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

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  Awards, Numbers, Records

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• I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

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  Records, Influence, Rich

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• I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

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  World, Matter, Kind

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• I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

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  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

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  Lying, Writing, Europe

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