Kreviazuk Chantal Quotes & Sayings

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished. — Edward Coke

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think. — Chantal Kreviazuk

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

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

Discipline enables you to think first and act second. — Joyce Meyer

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

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

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy . — Anthony De Mello

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

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

Treating depression often requires that a patient identifies and changes self-defeating thinking. Identifying religion as the problem is especially difficult, since people often retreat to religion to deal with their depression. In reality, however, while religion promises peace and fulfillment, it often creates more of what caused the depression in the first place. — Darrel Ray

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

I was tainted.
With her blood.
Their blood.
And the disease of my despair.
There was no cleansing something so tainted.
This was who I was now.
This was War. — K. Webster

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

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out. — Emily Blunt

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

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

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing. — Chantal Kreviazuk

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you. — Stephen Colbert

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved ... and they're great. — Chantal Kreviazuk

Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person. — M. Scott Peck

As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success. — Mason Cooley

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk

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. — Chantal Kreviazuk