Laura Marling quotes

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. (Laura Marling)
I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me. View quote
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. View quote
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision. View quote
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People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork. View quote
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs. View quote
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No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money. View quote
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life. View quote
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I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone. View quote
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. View quote
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe. (Laura Marling)
It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not. View quote
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I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion. View quote
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. View quote
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that. View quote
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again. View quote
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I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do. View quote
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I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think. View quote
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism. View quote
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When a song wants to be written, it will be written. View quote
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head. (Laura Marling)
All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences. View quote
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture. View quote
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard. View quote
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Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. View quote
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