Quotes by Regina Spektor

About Regina Spektor:

Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She was born in the Soviet Union where she began classical training on the piano at the age of 6. When she was 9 years old, her family emigrated to the United States where she continued her classical training into her teenage years; she began to write original songs shortly thereafter.
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This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

Regina Spektor

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

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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 thing...

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I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my pa...

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I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

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The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record.

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I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

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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 g...

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I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

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I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

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It's not like I have all the answers.

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I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

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Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be

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May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have lost. Let's give them one more round of applause.

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I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

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This is how it works: you're young until you're not. You love until you don't, you try until you can't, you laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh. And everyone must breathe until their dying breath. This is how it works: you peer inside yourse...

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Today we younger than we ever gonna be!

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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

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Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

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I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

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Author Bio

  • NameRegina Spektor
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter and pianist
  • BornFebruary 18, 1980
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Pianist; Musician; Singer-songwriter