David Gray Quotes

• That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

  David Gray

  Places To Go, Music Is

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• You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

  David Gray

  Book, Ideas, People

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• There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

  David Gray

  Life, Stars, Rain

  Song: Everytime, Album: Sell, Sell, Sell, 1996

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• I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

  David Gray

  Emotion, Emanate, Knows

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• I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.

  David Gray

  Heart, Type, Sleeves

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• Wonder in everything No matter how great or small... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin... There's a time to search for understanding Sometimes you just got to sing New horizons, new horizon within

  David Gray

  Time, Stars, Understanding

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• I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.

  David Gray

  Want, Repeats, Knows

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• I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

  David Gray

  Spring, Energy, Stories

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• Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

  David Gray

  Divorce, Son, My Son

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• I find everything a struggle.

  David Gray

  Struggle

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• Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.

  David Gray

  Kissing, Somewhere Else, Want

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• I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

  David Gray

  Emotional, Married, Problem

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• In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

  David Gray

  Emotional, Creative, Together

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• It's amazing, the amount of detail and thought that goes into just an average day. Between the things you see on the news, or on the subway, or whatever, it all gets in there. You sort of shut most of it out, but it all goes in.

  David Gray

  Average, Details, News

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• October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

  David Gray

  Rain, Fall, Gold

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• And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds - large, light, and fugitive.

  David Gray

  Clouds, Light, Blue

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• In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.

  David Gray

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

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• Night falling on the city
  Quite something to behold
  Don't it just look so pretty
  This disappearing world

  David Gray

  Fall, Night, Cities

  Song: Disappearing World, Album: Life In Slow Motion, 2005

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