Regina Spektor Quotes

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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

  People, Care, Want

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

  Regina Spektor

  Morning, Smirk, Purpose

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• The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'

  Regina Spektor

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Love what you have and you'll have more love.

  Regina Spektor

  Song: Firewood, Album: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, 2012

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• I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

  Regina Spektor

  Hero, Needs, Stories

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• Taking steps is easy
  Standing still is hard...
  Everything is different
  The second time around.

  Regina Spektor

  Different, Steps, Easy

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• This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again

  Regina Spektor

  Love You, Heart, Blood

  Song: On The Radio, Album: Begin to Hope, 2006

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• You get to be your own curator of your own exhibits inside.

  Regina Spektor

  Curator, Exhibits

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

  Regina Spektor

  Distance, Thinking, Space

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• Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

  Regina Spektor

  Stars, Dark, Light

  Song: The Call

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• All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.

  Regina Spektor

  Nice, Play, Doors

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, kosu.org. October 3, 2016.

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• You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.

  Regina Spektor

  Cancer, Fall, Writing

  "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2012.

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• So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

  Regina Spektor

  Letting Go, Rejection, Break

  Song: Ode to Divorce, Album: Soviet Kitsch, 2004

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• I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

  Regina Spektor

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May 2012.

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• Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

  Regina Spektor

  Powerful, World, Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.

  Regina Spektor

  Fun, Book, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Trying, Messages

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Regina Spektor

  Hate, Magic, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

  Regina Spektor

  Play, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience where, in one way, you are still very much yourself, and in some ways you become even more connected to the rest of yourself. All of a sudden, you just get more connected to your child self, and your teenage self, and all these selves that you've maybe been abandoning at every date post that you pass.

  Regina Spektor

  Children, Teenage, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The piano is not firewood -- yet.

  Regina Spektor

  Piano, Firewood

  Song: Firewood, Album: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, 2012

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• I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Stories, Narrative

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• I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

  Regina Spektor

  Stories, Fairytale, Love Story

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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