Laura Nyro Quotes

• As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

  Laura Nyro

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Way

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• All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there... I think of it as my serious playground.

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  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

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• When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

  Laura Nyro

  Spiritual, Religious, Writing

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• Nothing cures like time and love.

  Laura Nyro

  Time And Love, And Love, Cures

  Song: Time and Love, Album: New York Tendaberry

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• They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

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  Thinking, Space, Waiting

  Song: The Right to Vote, Album: Mother's Spiritual

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• Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

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  Thinking, Together Again, World

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• There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art. ... A lot of my songs are very serious, I'm like dead serious about certain things and I feel that I'm writing about the world, through my own eyes. ... I have a love for simple basic song structure, although sometimes you'd never know it. ... Most of the songs I wrote at night. I would just wake in the middle of the night. That's when I found the space to write.

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  Song, Art, Eye

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• Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on...

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  Children, Our World, Long

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• For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art, poetry, and music. As that kind of artist, I can do anything. I can say anything. It's about self-expression. It knows no package - there's no such thing. That's what being an artist is.

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  Art, Expression, Self

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• My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

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  Children, Heaven, Dying

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• If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

  Laura Nyro

  Death, Dying, Wells

  Song: And When I Die

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• There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.

  Laura Nyro

  Song, Art, Writing

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• I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

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  Jesus, Morning, Believe

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• I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

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  Peace, Children, Giving

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• I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

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  Eye, Wind, Sky

  Song: New York Tendaberry, Album: New York Tendaberry

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• You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

  Laura Nyro

  Wall, Brain, Cripples

  Song: Poverty Train, Album: Eli and the Thirteenth Confession

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• I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

  Laura Nyro

  Artist, Thinking, Should

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• Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

  Laura Nyro

  Farewell, Heart, Design

  Song: Emmie

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