Top 50 Regina Spektor Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood.”

— Regina Spektor

2. “I’m the hero of this story, I don’t need to be saved.”

— Regina Spektor

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3. “A man destined to hang can never drown.”

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4. “Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.”

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5. “The piano is not firewood – yet.”

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6. “You are my sweetest downfall.”

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7. “Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk.”

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8. “No one’s laughing at God -We’re all laughing with God.”

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9. “I think to me, all songs are stories.”

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10. “You’re using your headphones to drown out your mind.”

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11. “Love what you have and you’ll have more love.”

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12. “Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten.”

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13. “Maybe one day you’ll understand I don’t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.”

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14. “We’re living in a den of thieves.”

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15. “I’ve got a perfect body, ’cause my eyelashes catch my sweat.”

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16. “It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.”

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17. “I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it’s all a story.”

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18. “And people are just people, They shouldn’t make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It’s coming and it’s going.”

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19. “And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us.”

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20. “The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.’”

— Regina Spektor

21. “Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.”

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22. “Its not like I have all the answers.”

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23. “I don’t kiss losers and I don’t kiss winners, and I don’t fight for honor ’cause we all are born sinners.”

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24. “So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.”

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25. “We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating.”

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26. “I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don’t care so much that I won’t do whatever the hell I want. It’s just one of those things.”

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27. “Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three years or something like that, it’s just not enough to put all the songs that I have, no matter how much I put.”

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28. “Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.”

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29. “Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.”

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30. “It’s a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.”

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31. “I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It’s such a gift.”

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32. “I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That’s the magic when you read or hear something wonderful – there’s no one that has all the answers.”

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33. “It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.”

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34. “Somebody’s got to tell all the people to be like the water.”

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35. “Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.”

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36. “I’ve done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.”

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37. “I go through insanity before a show. It’s not really a process but it’s like absolute mortal fear.”

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38. “The world that has made us can no longer contain us.”

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39. “I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.”

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40. “Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a Billie Holiday song? I’d say, No, it’s my song. The lyrics would be in my style, but the songs would be very jazzy.”

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41. “I also don’t like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don’t get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that’s like seventeen songs.”

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42. “I figured, ‘If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I’ll only do it if I got to do it how I want.’ So my contract is structured in such a way that I’m really protected.”

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43. “Luckily, there’s enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.”

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44. “This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.”

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45. “I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn’t make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.”

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46. “I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that’s so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.”

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47. “Even if you’re an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you’re still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody’s who’s writing from their direct ‘I’ or ‘me.’ I’m just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.”

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48. “I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.”

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49. “When you’re playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that’s crude and not as good.”

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50. “It’s a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don’t have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don’t really like that kind of writing.”

— Regina Spektor