Paula Cole Quotes

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Paula Cole

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 5, 1968

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.

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At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

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I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.

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The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

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If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

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I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.

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The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

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For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

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Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

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I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

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I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

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But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

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I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

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I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.

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I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.

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I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

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I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

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I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

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But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

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Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

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