Jane Siberry Quotes

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

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Feeling, Music

• I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can’t blame lawyers anymore for the ‘liability’ vs. common sense imbalance.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sense, Blame, Game

• I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Done, Good

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

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Found, Universe, Study

• 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.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Old, Young, Mind

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

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Ahead, Head

• 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.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Fun, Good

• I am a musician. I didn’t know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn’t hearing somewhere else and I ‘needed’ this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Music, Young

• I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium – the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the ‘cartoonishness’ out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing… If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Mean, Great

• 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!

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Political, Good

• Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Greater, Harmony

• 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.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Put, Everything, Someone

• Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ball, Different, Night

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

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wonderful, She, Writer

• 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.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Understand, Hell

• Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that’s what they do in ‘Harry Potter’: The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they’ve been near the Dementors!

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales – where some of my ancestors are from – and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

  Jane Siberry

• It’s all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity – all those things.

  Jane Siberry

• I was raised on pop music.

  Jane Siberry

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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