Paula Cole Quotes
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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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I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
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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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Hitler's brothers are on the rise, they're wearing everyday disguises.
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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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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. . . .
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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 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 wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.
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You make me feel like a candy apple, red and horny.
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Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom.
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I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.
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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 don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
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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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Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
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Welcome to the church of me.
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Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair
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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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Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.
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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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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'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'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
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I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come
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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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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 am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.
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