Florence Welch Quotes - Page 2

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• I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.

  Florence Welch

  Girl, Growing Up, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.

  Florence Welch

  Worry, Waiting, Insane

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• I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Names, Different

  "Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine: An EW Q&a". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, ew.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Where's my heart at? Aw. Um, in my chest. I think it's in there - on the right hand side. Sometimes it's in my mouth and sometimes I can feel it in my stomach, when I get really nervous. So it's pretty physical.

  Florence Welch

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

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• Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.

  Florence Welch

  Normal, Mellow, Wells

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• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  Florence Welch

  Skills, Style, Enthusiasm

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• It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

  Florence Welch

  People, Vulnerable, Intimacy

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• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  Florence Welch

  Children, Voice, Touching

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

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• I think music should be scary.
  Music is an exorcism.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Scary, Exorcism

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• I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

  Florence Welch

  People, Want, Caught

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• I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

  Florence Welch

  Jumping, Tree, Hitting

  "What will Florence Welch say next - and will we understand it?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2012.

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• I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

  Florence Welch

  Way, Intense, Feels

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• I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

  Florence Welch

  Girl, Art, Hype

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• I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

  Florence Welch

  Mean, Thinking, Healthy

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• I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

  Florence Welch

  Joy, Feelings, Battle

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• I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Careers, Interesting

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• On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

  Florence Welch

  Purpose, Use, Emotion

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• I don't want your future,
  I don't need your past.
  One bright moment
  Is all I ask.

  Florence Welch

  Past, Needs, Want

  "Song: 'Leave My Body'". 2011.

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• I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

  Florence Welch

  Wall, Together, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.

  Florence Welch

  Religious, Children, Drama

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• I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.

  Florence Welch

  Long, People, Want

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• I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Favors, Going To Work

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.

  Florence Welch

  Running, Mean, Rivers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

  Florence Welch

  Love, Sex, Writing

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

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• I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

  Florence Welch

  Girl, Gone, Choir

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

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