Jane Siberry Quotes

• When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was ‘realizing’ that music was ‘different’ from other things in life.

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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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• ‘The Taxi Ride,’ from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I’m consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that’s a sad song.

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  Tags in Place, Trying

• The gym of life has a free membership. Build powerful life-muscles through family gatherings from hell. Do you really want to be a happy, peaceful blob?

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  Tags in Happy

• 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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  Tags in Music, Great, Faith

• Since the music industry cracked and fell apart, gasping for the cash flow it had come to expect, much re-thinking has been the order of the day. It is a fine time to be a musician. Like walking through Sodom and Gomorrah while it is still smoking, on your way to the next gig.

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  Tags in Time, Through, Music

• Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

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  Tags in Music, Change, Powerful

• Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

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  Tags in Training, Understand, Music

• If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.

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  Tags in Without, Someone, Music

• 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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  Tags in Without, Freedom

• 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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  Tags in Music, Rock, Someone

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

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  Tags in Word, Difficult, Music

• 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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  Tags in Coming, Second, Jesus

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

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  Tags in Together, Anything, Music

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

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  Tags in Try, Rock, Music

• 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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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time, Try

• I tour alone. There’s no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it’s really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it’s a new relationship being built. It’s odd and wonderful.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Home, Alone

• I think, because I’m an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It’s in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

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  Tags in Artist, Air

• I think we’re returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That’s where we’re heading. And it’ll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

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  Topics in Money

  Tags in Ever, Music

• 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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  Topics in God

  Tags in Someone, Sleep

Jane Siberry (41)

Birth:	12th October, 1955
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Jane Siberry was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for such hits as "Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", "One More Colour" and "Calling All Angels". She performed the theme song to the television series Maniac Mansion. Her albums list shown below: Jane Siberry, No Borders Here, The Speckless Sky, The Walking, Bound by the Beauty, When I Was a Boy, Maria, Teenager, A Day in the Life, Hush, City, Shushan the Palace, Dragon Dreams, and Angels Bend Closer. In 2005, she was awarded the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in music by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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