83 Quotes by Suzanne Vega

I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.

Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon

Today I am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye

Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you’ve seen me before.

I wasn’t afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I’d get a notion in my mind and just follow it.