Quotes by Florence Welch

About Florence Welch:

Florence Leontine Mary Welch is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the indie rock band Florence + the Machine.
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When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

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What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

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I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old g...

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At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American...

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I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.

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A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes. I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind. The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out. You left me in the dark. No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight...

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Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

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You took my heart and you held it in your mouth And, with a word all my love came rushing out And, every whisper, it's the worst, emptied out by a single word There is a hollow in me now... And Every whisper, every sigh Eats away at this heart of min...

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Then I heard your voice as clear as day, And you told me I should concentrate, It was all so strange, And so surreal, That a ghost should be so practical. Only if for a night And the only solution was to stand and fight, And my body was bruised and I...

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For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

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Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

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If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

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I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.

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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.

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I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

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When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

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Author Bio

  • NameFlorence Welch
  • DescriptionEnglish musician, singer and songwriter
  • BornAugust 28, 1986
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionSinger; Singer-songwriter; Guitarist; Composer