Jane Siberry Quotes

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Jane Siberry

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 12, 1955

I don't make decisions with my head anymore. If I don't get the go ahead with my gut, I usually back out.

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I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

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Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!

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We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

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Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

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I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

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I am part of an age-old profession of musicianship. I believe these times require grounding, real-ness and fun. Let's do it. Whatever happens is all good.

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I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

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As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

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I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

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I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

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Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.

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I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

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I try not to agonize over my lyrics, though, because that can come across in them. Some lyrics come more easily than others and some you have to spend a lot of time on, but I think you have to watch that you don't take the life out of them by worrying too much.

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Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

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So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

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I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

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I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

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I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

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Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.

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