Regina Spektor Quotes
I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.
It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.
When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.
I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.
I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.
All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.
We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.
Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.
I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.
This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath.
I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.
I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.
Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.
I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.
I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.
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.
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.
Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.
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.
Maybe one day you’ll understand I don’t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.
