151 Quotes by 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Somebody’s got to tell all the people to be like the water.
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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.
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I go through insanity before a show. It’s not really a process but it’s like absolute mortal fear.
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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.
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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.
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