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ALANIS MORISSETTE QUOTES |
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"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not
take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making
himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not
constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance." - Alanis
Morissette
"All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record
is a snapshot of this period in my life. It will be that by
default." - Alanis Morissette
"And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been
doing what I want to do since Day 1." - Alanis Morissette
"And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in
the studio until 4 in the morning." - Alanis Morissette
"And playing God in a cameo in a movie for a week-and-a-half is
very fun." - Alanis Morissette
"And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know
that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am
at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward
and I love that process." - Alanis Morissette
"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it
isn't, I don't really see a point to it." - Alanis Morissette
"As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll
fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody." - Alanis
Morissette
"At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now
I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual." - Alanis
Morissette
"At some point, I would like to write a book and other things,
but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own
mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are
breathing down the back of my neck." - Alanis Morissette
"But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was
offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and
contributing, then it started to get fun again." - Alanis
Morissette
"Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And
there will probably be political events or spiritual things to
comment on, and humor." - Alanis Morissette
"I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going
on." - Alanis Morissette
"I didn't know if it would be in syncopation or in the rhymes,
but I liked the rulelessness of it." - Alanis Morissette
"I didn't realize that I would be able to do that through music,
for many reasons, including myself being my own saboteur and
being in creative environments that were not conducive to my
feeling free and injudged." - Alanis Morissette
"I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is
my favorite way to do anything." - Alanis Morissette
"I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write
songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes." - Alanis
Morissette
"I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far
as a career since I was nine years old." - Alanis Morissette
"I just thought that it was obviously such a one-dimensional
thing to call someone simply an angry person." - Alanis
Morissette
"I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical
and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna
meet." - Alanis Morissette
"I love collaborating, too." - Alanis Morissette
"I love songs that are very autobiographical." - Alanis
Morissette
"I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing
interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm
at choice in the matter." - Alanis Morissette
"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write
in a way where there are no rules." - Alanis Morissette
"I remember when I was 10-years old I was at that proverbial
fork in the road and I was acting as much as I was singing and
writing songs just seemed to be so much more self-reliant and
self-originating." - Alanis Morissette
"I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away
from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed
to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually
communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious." -
Alanis Morissette
"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." -
Alanis Morissette
"I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone
has lost hope." - Alanis Morissette
"I think some fans want everything to stay they same because
they want to stay the same." - Alanis Morissette
"I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but
just as a person." - Alanis Morissette
"I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through
it." - Alanis Morissette
"I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s
and early '70s." - Alanis Morissette
"I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this
external success that everyone would love you and everything
would be peaceful and wonderful." - Alanis Morissette
"I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs." - Alanis
Morissette
"I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I
can make a change." - Alanis Morissette
"If we're all on the same page and we all know that we're here
to make this record be my personal expression, then we're fine."
- Alanis Morissette
"In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without
turning it into a novelty song, is really charming." - Alanis
Morissette
"It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record
that it doesn't work for me." - Alanis Morissette
"Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of
money and the stakes are a lot higher." - Alanis Morissette
"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who
knows WHY will always be his boss." - Alanis Morissette
"The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to
write songs." - Alanis Morissette
"They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase
of life I'm in." - Alanis Morissette
"We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect." -
Alanis Morissette
"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never
understood it." - Alanis Morissette
"Well, I didn't smile for a long time." - Alanis Morissette
"What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot
of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm
about as a person and as a writer." - Alanis Morissette
"When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly
belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out." - Alanis
Morissette
"When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in
a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet -
very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing
else, that I could do it as a woman." - Alanis Morissette
"When I'm supposed to switch something, my gut will tell me to
do something that stretches or scares myself, and then I will."
- Alanis Morissette |
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