Quotes by Juliana Hatfield

About Juliana Hatfield:

Juliana Hatfield is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area. She was formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies and Some Girls and now performs as a solo artist, and as one half of Minor Alps, alongside Matthew Caws of Nada Surf. In December 2014, Paste Magazine named her cover of the "Needle in the Hay", a song by Elliott Smith, as No. 10 one of the "20 Best Cover Songs of 2014."
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I'm not a very good advice-giver.

Juliana Hatfield

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

Juliana Hatfield

I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.

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I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

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Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

Juliana Hatfield

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

Juliana Hatfield

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Juliana Hatfield

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

Juliana Hatfield

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

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I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

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I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

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I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.

Juliana Hatfield

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

Juliana Hatfield

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

Juliana Hatfield

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

Juliana Hatfield

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Juliana Hatfield

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better.

Juliana Hatfield

Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of me, squeezing my guts really hard.

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I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

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A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

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I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

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Author Bio

  • NameJuliana Hatfield
  • DescriptionAmerican guitarist/singer-songwriter and author
  • BornJuly 27, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Composer; Autobiographer