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Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.
Regina Spektor
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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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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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A man destined to hang can never drown
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It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, This record is much more mature than your other record and I would think, Well, this record has more songs from when I was 18 on it than the other one.
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I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.
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I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.
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We're living in a den of thieves
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You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.
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You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.
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It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.
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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.
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I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.
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I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.
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Never, never mind your bleeding heart.
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God, our world is so complicated.
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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
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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 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.
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Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
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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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Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.
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