Cat Power Quotes
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People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
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Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
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I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.
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I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me. ... There’s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don’t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don’t invalidate me.
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I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
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Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.
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I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.
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I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.
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I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.
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From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
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I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.
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After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
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I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.
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I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.
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People and their religions don't affect me.
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Nobody considers a covers record an album.
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I need to be able to face things.
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Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
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If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
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I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.
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Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.
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We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind
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We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
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Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.