Jane Siberry Quotes

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

Though the night seems long, you're tears won't fall forever.

I tell everyone a different story. That way nothing's ever boring, even when they turn and say goodbye.

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

You can't chop down a symmetry

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.