Paula Cole quotes
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“I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.”
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“For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.”
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“The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.”
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“I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.”
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“It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.”
-- Paula ColeSource : Song: Me, Album: This Fire, 1996
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“Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.”
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“I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.”
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“I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.”
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“I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me.”
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“I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.”
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“I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.”
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“I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.”
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“I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.”
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“I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.”
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“I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.”
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“Welcome to the church of me.”
-- Paula ColeSource : Song: Road To Dead, Album: This Fire, 1996
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“Hitler's brothers are on the rise, they're wearing everyday disguises.”
-- Paula ColeSource : Song: Hitler's Brothers, Album: Harbinger
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“You make me feel like a candy apple, red and horny.”
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“Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.”
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“But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.”
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“But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.”
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“I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.”
-- Paula ColeSource : Song: Nietzsche's Eyes, Album: This Fire, 1996
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“And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.”
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“I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come”
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“I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.”
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“The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.”
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“I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.”
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“At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.”
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“I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .”
-- Paula ColeSource : Song: Me, Album: This Fire, 1996
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“Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.”
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“Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair”
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“I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively”
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“I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success”
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“The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground”
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“I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.”
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“I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.”
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“Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.”
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“When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again”
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“Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.”
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“I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.”
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“If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.”
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