46 ordspråk av Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
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And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.
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Besides dancing at school and the studios, I'd written all these songs and had begun to play them at auditions.
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But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.
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Don't make a threat and then not do it.
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Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.
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He was the first person I ever saw live on stage, and I was really offended by everything he was doing,
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How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.
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I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.
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I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.
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I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
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I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.
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I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.
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I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios-the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us-and the feeling of ritual the classes had.
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I refuse to slap some stupid words on the stupid paper just so we have a stupid song finished.
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