Jane Siberry Quotes
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So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.
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Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.
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I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.
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I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.
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We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
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I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.
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I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
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I was raised on pop music.
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I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.
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It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.
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Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.
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Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.
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I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.
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Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.
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If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
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Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.
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'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.
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I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.