Top 40 Suzanne Vega Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You have to defend your honor. And your family.”

— Suzanne Vega

2. “My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you’ve seen me before.”

— Suzanne Vega

3. “How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.”

— Suzanne Vega

4. “I wasn’t afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I’d get a notion in my mind and just follow it.”

— Suzanne Vega

5. “I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.”

— Suzanne Vega

6. “It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.”

— Suzanne Vega

7. “I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.”

— Suzanne Vega

8. “Yes I think I’m okay, walked into the door again.”

— Suzanne Vega

9. “If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.”

— Suzanne Vega

10. “Some girls are taught to be sexy.”

— Suzanne Vega

11. “There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.”

— Suzanne Vega

12. “Don’t make a threat and then not do it.”

— Suzanne Vega

13. “I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.”

— Suzanne Vega

14. “Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they’re just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.”

— Suzanne Vega

15. “Girls are crazy and mean. They don’t fight fair.”

— Suzanne Vega

16. “And I really wanted a driver’s license. I was 43, had my learner’s permit and had failed the test once already – but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.”

— Suzanne Vega

17. “To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don’t see why someone who’s a feminist should be thought of differently.”

— Suzanne Vega

18. “So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don’t feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.”

— Suzanne Vega

19. “Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.”

— Suzanne Vega

20. “I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios – the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us – and the feeling of ritual the classes had.”

— Suzanne Vega

21. “I didn’t go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I’d fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.”

— Suzanne Vega

22. “When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I’d ever felt before.”

— Suzanne Vega

23. “Don’t uncork what you can’t contain.”

— Suzanne Vega

24. “That said, I’ve never thought the fact that I’m a woman was important to my work.”

— Suzanne Vega

25. “In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver’s license became about much more than a divorced woman’s learning to drive for the first time.”

— Suzanne Vega

26. “Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.”

— Suzanne Vega

27. “If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it’s best to go for the biggest one. That way you won’t have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.”

— Suzanne Vega

28. “I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won’t change that much.”

— Suzanne Vega

29. “I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that’s a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.”

— Suzanne Vega

30. “I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.”

— Suzanne Vega

31. “I still feel conflicted because I don’t always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I’d like, given my work.”

— Suzanne Vega

32. “A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.”

— Suzanne Vega

33. “I still consider myself a feminist.”

— Suzanne Vega

34. “My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.”

— Suzanne Vega

35. “I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.”

— Suzanne Vega

36. “Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.”

— Suzanne Vega

37. “It’s striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.”

— Suzanne Vega

38. “The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.”

— Suzanne Vega

39. “Last year’s troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don’t have today.”

— Suzanne Vega

40. “But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.”

— Suzanne Vega

41. “I was always inventing characters and making up stories.”

— Suzanne Vega