Eleanor Friedberger quotes
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“My big regret is that my brother and I didn't start doing what we did like, 10 years before. I feel like then we would have sold some records. We started pretty late - I was 27 when our first album came out.”
-- Eleanor FriedbergerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.”
-- Eleanor FriedbergerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.”
-- Eleanor FriedbergerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“When you're working with somebody else in that kind of way, you always have to have these guidelines to what you're doing - especially when you're working with your sibling. But when you're working by yourself you're free to do whatever you like.”
-- Eleanor FriedbergerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“I played some shows, but I'm disappointed it didn't do better. I wish all my shows sold out, I wish I had sold more copies, I wish that a song was picked up to be in a TV show - whatever these little benchmarks are. You always want something more.”
-- Eleanor FriedbergerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the Last Summer tour], and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.”
-- Eleanor FriedbergerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer.”
-- Eleanor FriedbergerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Not that I feel like I have a lack of confidence, it's just good to stand up in front of people who don't really know what to expect. Am I going to say something? Am I going to sing? And often when I do say anything it gets a laugh, because everyone's already used to laughing. So I can seem like I'm actually a funny person.”
-- Eleanor FriedbergerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.”
Source : A.J. Cronin (1941). “The Keys of the Kingdom”
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Source : "Saudi: US Iraq presence illegal". news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2007.
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“Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.”
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Source : A. C. Grayling (2003). “Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA
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Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “While It Lasts”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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