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Sara Beth Bareilles is an American singer-songwriter, actress and author.

She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Bareilles has sold over one million albums and over nine million singles and downloads in the United States alone and has earned six Grammy Award nominations, including one Album of the Year nomination for her album The Blessed Unrest. In the third season of NBC's The Sing-Off, Bareilles served as a celebrity judge alongside Ben Folds and Shawn Stockman. In February 2012 VH1 placed Bareilles in the 80th spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music.Her memoir, Sounds Like Me: My Life in Song, was published in 2015; The New York Times listed it as a bestseller.

She composed music and wrote lyrics for the Broadway musical Waitress, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score in 2016, and a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album. In April 2018, Bareilles received acclaim for her portrayal of Mary Magdalene in NBC's adaptation of a classic Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, for which she was nominated for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

In November 2017, Bareilles was given the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Pioneer Awards for her success in Music and her championing of women everywhere at the United Nations in New York City.

✵ 7. December 1979
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Famous Sara Bareilles Quotes

“Tell the world that we finally got it all right
I choose you
I will become yours and you will become mine
I choose you.”

Sara Bareilles

"I Choose You"
Written by Bareilles, Jason Blynn, and Pete Harper
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)

“I would die to make you mine
Bleed me dry almost every time
But I don't mind, no I don't mind it
I would come back 1000 times”

Sara Bareilles

"1000 Times"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)

“It can't be a mistake
If I just call it change”

Sara Bareilles

"December"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)

“The time that I've taken
I pray is not wasted
Have I already tasted
My piece of one sweet love”

Sara Bareilles

"One Sweet Love"
Lyrics, Careful Confessions (2004)

“Set me free
 Leave me be
 I dont wanna fall another moment into your gravity”

Sara Bareilles

"Gravity"
Lyrics, Careful Confessions (2004)

“Maybe nobody loved you when you were young
Maybe, boy, when you cry nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun”

Sara Bareilles

"Machine Gun"
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)

Sara Bareilles Quotes

“I'm going down
Follow if you want
I won't just hang around
Like you'll show me where to go
I'm already out
Of foolproof ideas
So don't ask me how
To get started
It's all uncharted”

Sara Bareilles

"Uncharted"
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)

“You can have Manhattan
I know it's for the best
Gather up the avenues and leave them on your doorstep”

Sara Bareilles

"Manhattan"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)

“I wonder what would happen if you
Say what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly, I want to see you be brave”

Sara Bareilles

"Brave"
Written by Bareilles and Jack Antonoff
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)

“A tongue like yours should be burned and branded
So I can see you lie to me
I wish the air would color red when you breathed it
Oh, so I could've seen it coming
Look in my eyes when you say you love me
So I can see you lie to me”

Sara Bareilles

"Lie to Me"
Lyrics, Once Upon Another Time (2012)

“I'll be alright
Once I find the other side
Of someday”

Sara Bareilles

"Gonna Get Over You"
Written by Bareilles and Sam Farrar
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)

“I wanna darken in the skies
Open the floodgates up
I wanna change my mind
I wanna be enough
I want the water in my eyes
I wanna cry until the end of time
I wanna let the rain come down
Make a brand new ground”

Sara Bareilles

"Let the Rain"
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)

“Who cares if you disagree?
You are not me
Who made you king of anything?
So you dare
Tell me who to be
Who died and made you king of anything?”

Sara Bareilles

"King of Anything"
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)

“I say what I think
Because it's more economic than drugs or a drink”

Sara Bareilles

"Sweet As Whole"
Lyrics, Once Upon Another Time (2012)

“You are all just perfect little satellites
Spinning round and round this broken Earthy life”

Sara Bareilles

"Satellite Call"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)

“They may be lies
 But say that we'll be alright
If we stay tonight”

Sara Bareilles

"Stay"
Lyrics, Once Upon Another Time (2012)

“I don't care
For your fairytales
 You're so worried about the maiden
Oh, you know she's only waiting on the next best thing”

Sara Bareilles

"Fairytale"
Lyrics, Careful Confessions (2004)

“You said
 Remember that life is
Not meant to be wasted
 We can always be chasing the sun
 So fill up your lungs and just—run!
 We can always be chasing the sun”

Sara Bareilles

"Chasing the Sun"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)

“So how do you do it?
 With just words and just music
 Capture the feeling
 That my earth is somebody's ceiling
 Can I deliver in sound
 The weight of the ground
of a cemetery
in the center of Queens”

Sara Bareilles

"Chasing the Sun"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)

“Mean songs are still better than going postal”

Sara Bareilles

"Sweet As Whole"
Lyrics, Once Upon Another Time (2012)

“I've got my little black dress on
And if I tell myself that nothing's wrong
This doesn't have to be a sad song
Not with my little black dress on.”

Sara Bareilles

"Little Black Dress"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)

“There's no way to make the pain play fair
It doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there”

Sara Bareilles

"Eden"
Written by Bareilles and Matt Hales
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)

“Ooh, how'm I gonna get over you?
 I'll be alright
 Just not tonight
 But someday”

Sara Bareilles

"Gonna Get Over You"
Written by Bareilles and Sam Farrar
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)

“Here I am
 And I stand
 So tall
 Just the way I'm supposed to be
 But you're on to me
 And all over me”

Sara Bareilles

"Gravity"
Lyrics, Careful Confessions (2004)

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