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Famous Quotes By Regina Spektor

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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

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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

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Maybe one day you'll understand I don't want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand. — Regina Spektor

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No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God. — Regina Spektor

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I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord please don't let me be misunderstood. — Regina Spektor

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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

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You're using your headphones to drown out your mind — Regina Spektor

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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

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Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles. — Regina Spektor

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So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts. — Regina Spektor

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I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things. — Regina Spektor

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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light. — Regina Spektor

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We're trying to be faithful but we're cheating, cheating, cheating — Regina Spektor

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Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them. — Regina Spektor

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And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn't mention us — Regina Spektor

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I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners — Regina Spektor

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May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have lost. Let's give them one more round of applause. — Regina Spektor

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This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath
No, 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
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again — Regina Spektor

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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

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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

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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

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I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights ... It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday. — Regina Spektor

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The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.' — Regina Spektor

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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

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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

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The piano is not firewood
yet. — Regina Spektor

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We're living in a den of thieves — Regina Spektor

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Don't tell your secrets to anyone/
Because ideas are vulnerable/
As soon as you say your idea out loud/
Then it can go and live on its own/
And you will miss it oh so much/
And you will wait for its return/
And you will wish it were your own/
But ideas that left never come back home. — Regina Spektor

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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

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I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved — Regina Spektor

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No one laughs at God in a hospital, — Regina Spektor

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

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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

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Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both. — Regina Spektor

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It's not like I have all the answers. — Regina Spektor

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You are my sweetest downfall. — Regina Spektor

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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

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I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat — Regina Spektor

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I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor

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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

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Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk — Regina Spektor

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Tried to head in the general direction of the bathroom/
The truest room in the whole damn house. — Regina Spektor

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I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. — Regina Spektor

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I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust? — Regina Spektor

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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

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Today we younger than we ever gonna be! — Regina Spektor

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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

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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

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I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them. — Regina Spektor

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It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body. — Regina Spektor

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The world that has made us can no longer contain us — Regina Spektor

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I always have kind of a few books going at the same time. — Regina Spektor

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I'm walking through the city
Like a drunk, but not
With my slip showing a little
Like a drunk, but not
And I am one of your people
But the cars don't stop
And I am one of your people
But the cars don't stop — Regina Spektor

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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

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I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs. — Regina Spektor

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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

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I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live. — Regina Spektor

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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

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I don't really make records chronologically. — Regina Spektor

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You've spent half of your life
Trying to fall behind
You're using your headphones
Just to drown out your mind. — Regina Spektor

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And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going. — Regina Spektor

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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

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Love what you have and you'll have more love. — Regina Spektor

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The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record. — Regina Spektor

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We keep on burying our dead/
We keep on planting their bones in the ground/
But they won't grow/
The sun doesn't help/
The rain doesn't help. — Regina Spektor

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When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good. — Regina Spektor

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Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be — Regina Spektor

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A man destined to hang can never drown — Regina Spektor

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I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers. — Regina Spektor

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Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water — Regina Spektor

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You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant. — Regina Spektor

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Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten — Regina Spektor

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Taking steps is easy
Standing still is hard ...
Everything is different
The second time around. — Regina Spektor

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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

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Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions. — Regina Spektor