Quotes by Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

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Writing

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don’t see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That’s why I write the way I do.

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Song

Writing

And I really wanted a driver’s license. I was 43, had my learner’s permit and had failed the test once already – but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

Islands

Long

Tests

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

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Song

Writing

Don’t make a threat and then not do it.

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Don’t uncork what you can’t contain

Girls are crazy and mean. They don’t fight fair.

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Fighting

Mean Girls

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

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I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

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I didn’t go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I’d fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

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Quotes by Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

And I really wanted a driver’s license. I was 43, had my learner’s permit and had failed the test once already – but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

Don’t make a threat and then not do it.

Don’t uncork what you can’t contain

Girls are crazy and mean. They don’t fight fair.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

I didn’t go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I’d fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

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