Regina Spektor Quotes

Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. She was born in Moscow , and began classical training on the piano at the age of six. When she was nine and a half years old, her family emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States, where she continued her classical training into her teenage years; she began to write original songs shortly thereafter.

After self-releasing her first three records and gaining popularity in New York City's independent music scenes, particularly the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village, Spektor signed with Sire Records in 2004 and began achieving greater mainstream recognition. After giving her third album a major label re-release, Sire released her fourth album, Begin to Hope, which would go on to achieve a Gold certification by the RIAA. Her following two albums, Far and What We Saw from the Cheap Seats, each debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200. 2016's Remember Us to Life peaked at 23 on the Billboard 200.

✵ 18. February 1980

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Famous Regina Spektor Quotes

“Try it again, breathing's just a rhythm”

"One More Time With Feeling"
Far (2009)

“Love is the answer to a question I have forgotten, but I know I've been asked. And the answer has got to be love.”

"Reading Time With Pickle
Songs (2002)

“On the radio
We heard November Rain
That solo's awful long
But it's a good refrain”

"On the Radio"
Begin to Hope (2006)

“No one laughs at God in a hospital,
No one laughs at God in a war,
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor…”

"Laughing With" - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxRXP3w-sQ&ob=av2e <br class="br">Far (2009)

“I've got a perfect body
But sometimes I forget
I've got a perfect body, because my eyelashes catch my sweat
Yes they do, they do.”

"Folding Chair"
Far (2009)

“The flowers you gave me are rotting
And still I refuse to throw them away”

The Flowers
Soviet Kitsch (2004)

Regina Spektor Quotes about love

“No, this is how it works —
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again.”

"On the Radio"
Begin to Hope (2006)

“This is how it works —
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath.”

"On the Radio"
Begin to Hope (2006)

“I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground”

"Fidelity"
Begin to Hope (2006)
Context: I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart...

Regina Spektor Quotes about God

“No one's laughing at God —
We're all laughing with God.”

"Laughing With"
Far (2009)

“God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious…”

"Laughing With"
Far (2009)
Context: No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door
And they say "We've got some bad news, sir."
 No one's laughing at God when there's a famine, fire or flood But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they're 'bout to choke God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious...

“No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door
And they say "We've got some bad news, sir."”

Far (2009)

Regina Spektor Quotes

“I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart…”

"Fidelity"
Begin to Hope (2006)
Context: I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart...

“A man destined to fry
Can never ever ever die…
In any other way but frying. Lucky that I'm dying
By hanging and not drowning.”

"Daniel Cowman"
Songs (2002)

“Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.”

Songs (2002)

“How could it go on when I don't exist? I don't exist…
So now that we've got that straight
Doesn't mean that I can fly
Doesn't mean I that I can go do whatever I want.”

"Daniel Cowman"
Songs (2002)

“Living in your pre-war apartment
Soon to be your post-war apartment”

Machine
Far (2009)

“Imagine you go away
On a business trip one day
And when you come back home
Your children have grown
And you never made your wife moan”

Ghost Of Corporate Future
Soviet Kitsch (2004)

“On the day that Daniel Cowman stopped existing
The world should have ended right then and there
At precisely four-fifteen when he stopped existing
The world should have ended
How could it go on?”

"Daniel Cowman"
Songs (2002)

“I'm the king's thirty-second son
There's thirty-one others just like me
There's thirty-one others on the way
There's thirty-one others after that…”

Odeipus
Songs (2002)

“A man destined to hang
Can never drown,
A man destined to hang
Can never ever drown.
A man destined to drown
Can never burn…”

"Daniel Cowman"
Songs (2002)

“Water, salt, cucumbers, garlic and”

Songs (2002)

“They'll name a city after us
And later say it's all our fault…”

Us
Soviet Kitsch (2004)

“He was perfect except for the fact that he was an engineer
And mothers prefer doctors
And lawyers Yet despite this imperfection
He was clean-looking and respectable-looking
And you'll never find a mother
Who doesn't appreciate a natural man”

Love Affair
11:11 (2001)

“Leaves become most beautiful when they're about to die
When they're about to fall from trees
When they're about to dry”

Time Is All Around
Far (2009)

“The world's got a nosebleed, it said
And we're flooding, but we keep on cutting the trees and the forests!
And we keep on paying those freaks on the TV
Who claim they will save us, but want to enslave us, and
Sweating like demons, they scream through our speakers
But we leave the sound on 'cause silence is harder, and
No one's the killer and no one's the martyr
The world that has made us can no longer contain us
And prophets are silent and rotting away.”

"Consequence of Sounds"
Songs (2002)

“Power to the people
We don't want it
We want pleasure
And the TVs try to rape us
And I guess that they're succeeding
And we're going to these meetings
But we're not doing any meeting
And we're trying to be faithful, but we're
Cheating, cheating, cheating”

Hero
Begin to Hope (2006)

“Two birds on a wire
One tries to fly away
And the other watches him close from that wire
He says he wants to as well
But he is a liar”

Two Birds
Far (2009)

“Pavlov's Daughter,
woke up in the morning,
hear the bell ring,
and something deep inside of her,
makes her want to salivate,
so she lays there drooling on her pillow…”

Pavlov's Daughter
11:11 (2001)

“Thirty-two's still a goddamn number
Thirty-two's still counts
Gonna make it count”

Odeipus
Songs (2002)

“It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song
You can't believe it; you were always singing along
It was so easy and the words so sweet
You can't remember; you try to move your feet.”

"Eet"
Far (2009)

“People are just people
They shouldn't make you nervous
The world is everlasting, it's coming and it's going
If you don't toss your plastic
The streets won't be so plastic
And if you kiss somebody then both of you get practice”

Ghost Of Corporate Future
Soviet Kitsch (2004)

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