Regina Spektor Quotes - Page 4

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• Its not like I have all the answers.

  Regina Spektor

  Answers

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• And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us

  Regina Spektor

  Book, History Books

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• A man destined to hang can never drown

  Regina Spektor

  Men, Destined

  Song: Daniel Cowman, Album: Songs

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• I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners

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  Fighting, Kissing, Honor

  Song: Your Honor, Album: Soviet Kitsch

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• The world that has made us can no longer contain us

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  World, Made

  Song: Consequence of Sounds, Album: Songs

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• Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten

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  Love Is, Answers, Forgotten

  Song: Reading Time with Pickle, Album: Songs, 2002

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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.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Play, Fans

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• It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Real, Writing

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

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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.

  Regina Spektor

  Cities, Space, Giants

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

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• We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating

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  Cheating, Faithful, Trying

  Song: Hero Of The Story

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• I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Space, Records

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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.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Play, People

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• I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.

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  Song, Math, Play

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• If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the ones that are on records.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Ipods, Records

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• I feel like there's just so much of everything that I don't know what people have heard and what they haven't heard. I think with the fact that there's the Internet and that people can share home-made recordings, I think a lot of the songs do get to be heard, even if it's not the best quality, or there's clinking glasses or it's just piano and voice, people can at least hear the song.

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  Song, Home, Thinking

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• Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three years or something like that, it's just not enough to put all the songs that I have, no matter how much I put.

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  Song, Years, Two

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• It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

  Regina Spektor

  Artist, Care, Privilege

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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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  Song, Holiday, People

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• I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

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  Knitting, Names, Piano

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• Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water

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  People, Water

  Song: A cannon

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• Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

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  Jars, Pickles

  Song: Reading Time with Pickle, Album: Songs, 2002

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• No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.

  Regina Spektor

  Laughing

  Song: Laughing With, Album: Far, 2009

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• Maybe one day you’ll understand I don’t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.

  Regina Spektor

  Hands, One Day, Want

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• I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Thinking, Taste

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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.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Jobs, Nice

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

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