Regina Spektor quotes - page 2

Living in your pre-war apartment Soon to be your post-war apartment. (Regina Spektor)
Imagine you go away On a business trip one day And when you come back home Your children have grown And you never made your wife moan. View quote
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Water, salt, cucumbers, garlic and. View quote
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How could it go on when I don't exist? I don't exist... So now that we've got that straight Doesn't mean that I can fly Doesn't mean I that I can go do whatever I want. View quote
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A man destined to hang Can never drown, A man destined to hang Can never ever drown. A man destined to drown Can never burn... View quote
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The flowers you gave me are rotting And still I refuse to throw them away. View quote
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They'll name a city after us And later say it's all our fault... View quote
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People are just people They shouldn't make you nervous The world is everlasting, it's coming and it's going If you don't toss your plastic The streets won't be so plastic And if you kiss somebody then both of you get practice. View quote
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No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door And they say "We've got some bad news, sir." View quote
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God can be funny When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus God can be so hilarious... View quote
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I hear in my mind All these voices I hear in my mind all these words I hear in my mind all this music And it breaks my heart It breaks my heart... (Regina Spektor)
I never loved nobody fully Always one foot on the ground. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's not like I have all the answers. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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