Laura Marling Quotes
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All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
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I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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When a song wants to be written, it will be written.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
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People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.