Top 50 Lisa Loeb Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t force things to happen. You can work towards things and keep yourself open to things, people, and opportunities, but you can’t and shouldn’t try to control everything. Also, if you haven’t noticed so far, I think sleep is really important.”

— Lisa Loeb

2. “There are many different ways to look at a situation, and it’s important to look at things the way they are.”

— Lisa Loeb

3. “You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.”

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4. “I think that I’m throwing but I’m thrown.”

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5. “When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?”

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6. “I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I’m in a city and I have enough free time, I’d better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.”

— Lisa Loeb

7. “With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.”

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8. “My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I’d been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.”

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9. “Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.”

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10. “You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.”

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11. “The time between meeting, and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love.”

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12. “I have so much joy in my life. I love my husband and kids so much. So much love. I’m also more focused now on spending more time at home and in town instead of going on tour. Because of that nesting, I find that I’m even more into writing and creating.”

— Lisa Loeb

13. “I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.”

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14. “In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.”

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15. “The song “No Fairy Tale” tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don’t feel right. I’ve done that more than enough times.”

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16. “The moon shines for you.”

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17. “The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.”

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18. “The smell of roses, my children’s bright eyes and smiles, laughing with my husband, walking on the beach, using my hands to do crafts or play guitar, brainstorming, and drinking coffee, really good coffee. All this makes me come alive.”

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19. “My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.”

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20. “I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don’t mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don’t like eating big pieces of meat.”

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21. “I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I’ve always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!”

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22. “I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.”

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23. “I’m old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.”

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24. “I use my cell phone as much as I can – I talk to friends all the time. I’m like 2,000 hours a month. It’s crazy.”

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25. “Sometimes you tell the truth like you’re pulling taffy.”

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26. “They rise in the morning, and they sleep in the dark. And even though nobody’s looking, she’s falling apart.”

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27. “Stop fighting. Everyone’s a person too. And take care of the Earth, please.”

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28. “When I was a kid, for me, the ’60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late ’60s.”

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29. “One of the things that’s influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.”

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30. “Also, I’m always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.”

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31. “Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.”

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32. “You get to a point in relationships where you don’t want to push anything, but things need to change, move on, or develop.”

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33. “I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don’t mind at all being a name from the ’90s.”

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34. “As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.”

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35. “The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.”

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36. “It’s really hard to balance work and being a mother.”

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37. “I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y’all want for lunch, and as we’re eating lunch, what do y’all want for dinner? It’s always about the next meal.”

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38. “There’s a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children’s music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn’t normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.”

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39. “I don’t think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren’t poor. Everything was very normal.”

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40. “When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.”

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41. “I don’t use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.”

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42. “I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.”

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43. “Again, I’m used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.”

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44. “I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I’m much better about eating, because I’m not standing in front of my pantry. I go to the market and pick up little carrot nubs.”

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45. “Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They’re supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That’s the world I grew up in.”

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46. “You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.”

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47. “If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.”

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48. “Ive learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it.”

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49. “With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.”

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50. “I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.”

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