Alanis Morissette citations (29 citations)

Alanis Morissette - Wake Up San Francisco with Adyashanti & Tami Simon - YouTube (28 March 2015; starts at 14:17) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_ClddVgJs

“My brothers,
They never went blind for what they did, but I may as well have.
In the name of the Father, the Skeptic and the Son,
I had one more stupid question.”

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Forgiven
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“You're unsure and you're not ready so that must mean I want you
You're unavailable and disinterested and to you I look for comfort”

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Bent for You
Feast on Scraps (2002)

“Sometimes I feel more bigness than I've shared with you
Sometimes I wonder why I quell when I'm not required to”

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Feast on Scraps (2002)

“There's an obvious attraction
To the path of least resistance in your life
Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence
Could make you try tonight

'Cause it's easy not to
So much easier not to
And what goes around never comes around to you
To you, to you, to you, to you, to you.”

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Wake Up
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“When [Jagged Little Pill] came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.”

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"Ten Years On, Alanis Unplugs Little Pill" by Melinda Newman in Billboard (4 March 2005) http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000827178

“I am the funniest woman that you've ever known.
I am the dullest woman that you've ever known.
I'm the most gorgeous woman that you've ever known and you've never met anyone
Who is as everything as I am sometimes.”

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Everything
So-Called Chaos (2004)

“I want to decide between survival and bliss
And though I know who I'm not I still don't know who I am
But I know I won't keep on playing the victim”

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Precious Illusions
Under Rug Swept

“You've been vilified, used as fodder, you deserve a piece of every record.”

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This Grudge
So-Called Chaos (2004)

“And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know.”

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You Oughta Know
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?”

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The Couch
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)

“There's a lyric in the middle of the song that says, "I want to decide between survival and bliss." Basically I'm talking about the difference between really being alive and really embracing the reason why I'm here on this earth versus my just being asleep and sleep walking and accepting the status quo and accepting somewhat of a suffering mentality to being here. It really is my responsibility to distinguish the difference between the two and choose which one I want. It's so easy for me to want to not take responsibility for my life and relinquish it and look outside of myself for the answers that I know very well are within me. It's so scary to be silent and it's so scary to go within, until I do it. And once I'm doing it, I just wonder why I wasn't doing this all the time. So that decision to be fully alive is one that is preceded by some pretty intense decisions and some choices and responsibility-taking that at times can be very intimidating, again, before I do it.”

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On her song "Precious Illusions", in "Alanis Morissette talks about songs from 'Under Rug Swept'", in MSO (23 Jun 2002) http://web.archive.org/web/20020623040236/http://msopr.com/mso/morissette-cutbycut.html

“Do I stress you out? My sweater is on backwards and inside out and you say 'How appropriate”

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All I Really Want
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it.”

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You Oughta Know
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

“You were uncomfortable in your own skin you were thirsty but mostly you were beautiful
If we were our paranoias I'd be joining you
if we were our incomes
If we were our obsessions
If we were our afflictions i'd be joining you”

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Joining You
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)