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Quotes by Keren Ann - (20 quotes)

Keren Ann - From the Audience category:

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Challenge category:

I like the fact that there is challenge. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Change category:

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Collaboration category:

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Emotion category:

The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art... (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Failure category:

Many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen... it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Music category:

-singer/songwriter...
I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Music category:

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Opposites category:

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Performance category:

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Play category:

I don't have a favorite place to play. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Production category:

You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Repetition category:

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Sleep category:

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Studio category:

I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my music while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Studio category:

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Theme category:

The themes come back. I guess I get obsessed with certain things like absence, lust, longing. They come back through different stories and different characters. But I also like how it stays mysterious. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Travel category:

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Words category:

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words. (Keren Ann)

Keren Ann - From the Writing category:

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that. (Keren Ann)