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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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More quotes by Regina Spektor
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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So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.
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You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, Oh, I don't think I like this.
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I think that I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find it really valuable, it's always just going to seem a little silly to me.
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There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important.
Regina Spektor
It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.
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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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The piano is not firewood -- yet.
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I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.
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This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.
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It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.
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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.
Regina Spektor
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.
Regina Spektor
The world that has made us can no longer contain us
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I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?
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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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I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really didn't like it, and I left it and it was just gathering dust for years. Then maybe five years later, the world shook as I read it.
Regina Spektor
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.
Regina Spektor
Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.
Regina Spektor
Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk
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