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Regina Spektor
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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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Never, never mind your bleeding heart.
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I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.
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It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
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This is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood.
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I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'
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Its not like I have all the answers.
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Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.
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Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the whole fun of them is being able to live in others' consciousness.
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I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.
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The piano is not firewood -- yet.
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God, our world is so complicated.
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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.
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I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
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I'm both kinds of a person I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed.
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I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.
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As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.
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I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.
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No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.
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I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.
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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.
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