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Regina Spektor Quotes

born 1980 Russia

Regina Spektor [Регина Спектор] (born 18 February 1980) is a Soviet-born American singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Also known as: Regina specktor

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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.

Songs (2002)

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

Soviet Kitsch (2004)

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

Songs (2002)

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

Begin to Hope (2006)

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.

Far (2009)

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

Far (2009)

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.

Begin to Hope (2006)

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

Far (2009)

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

Far (2009)

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.

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...

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...

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.

Far (2009)

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...

Begin to Hope (2006)

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

Songs (2002)

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

Soviet Kitsch (2004)

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...

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

Soviet Kitsch (2004)

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.

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

Far (2009)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Regina Spektor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.