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Florence Welch is a renowned British musician known for her distinctive voice and artistic style. Born on August 28, 1986, she has made significant achievements in the music industry with her passion for music.

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“I was a heavy heart to carry My beloved was weighed down My arms around his neck My fingers laced to crown. I was a heavy heart to carry My feet dragged across ground And he took me to the river Where he slowly let me drown My love has concrete feet My love's an iron ball Wrapped around your ankles Over the waterfall”

Heart Feet Arms Rivers Let Me Balls Fingers Heavy Beloved Necks Iron Concrete Crowns Ankles Waterfalls Heavy Heart

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“I don't want your future, I don't need your past. One bright moment Is all I ask.”

Want Needs Moments Past Asks Our Future Our Past Your Future Your Past Right Moment

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“Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.”

Ifs Hands Funny Fun Ready Regret Blessing Having Fun Weekend Singer Songwriters Rock Music Hands Up My Blessing Hands In The Air

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“I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.”

People World I Can Helping Artist Loses My Own Worry Too Much Everyday Help Me Frustrating My Own World Everyday Things

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“I wish to remain nameless And live without shame 'Cause what's in a name, Oh I still remain the same”

Stills Names Wish Causes Shame Nameless

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“I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.”

Trying Healthy Sane Daydreaming Dose

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“The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.”

Way I Can Music Is Demon Shakes Melancholy Visceral Exorcism Euphoric

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“Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with affection. I’m really lucky to be able to be in some of these situations and it feels really nice to be able to take people along with me for the ride. Oh, and I’m a pain in the ass as well.”

People Feels Trying Wells I Can Sometimes Able Pain Situation Nice Lucky Affection Extremes Ass Generous Distracted Really Nice Euphoria Vacant

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“I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear.”

Ifs Want Sound Tree Building Ocean Breathe Disappear Tall Overwhelming Throwing Tall Buildings

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“I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.”

Felt Tree Locals Parks Hitting Jumping Kites 16th Birthday

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“I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.”

Persons Order Couple Healthy Thousand Healthy Relationship

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“I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.”

Knows Moments Use Feelings Loses Emotion Know How Tools Very Good Holding Back

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“I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping. When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.”

Trying Ideas Moments Feelings Kids Lying Felt Water Breathe Pool Jumping Drowning Jumping Off

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“I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.”

Bigs House Party Fans Dresses Fancy Costumes House Party

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“Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.”

Eye Worst Nightmare Worst Nightmares

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“Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.”

Soul Beautiful Sadness Something Beautiful

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“A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.”

Dream Song Albums Ghost Grandmother Imaginary Rumor Visiting Imaginary Things

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“Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.”

Creativity Selfish Horrible Miserable Heartbroken Manic Being Selfish

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“It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.”

People Loses Vulnerable Intimacy Vulnerability Grandeur

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“I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.”

Trying Littles Two Book Home Reality Kids Wanted School Fall Class Boys Falling In Love Obsessed Witch Spells Witchcraft Shrines Two Friends

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“Lay me down, Let the only sound, Be the overflow, Pockets full of stones.”

Sound Stones Lays Pockets Overflow

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“It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he would direct the video for 'Spectrum' from the moment the song was written. I still can't believe it actually happened, and I'm completely overjoyed that he felt such a connection with the song.”

Believe Stills Book Moments Dream Song Felt Written Happened Direct Connections Video Teenager Cant Spectrum Overjoyed

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“It's always darkness before the dawn.”

Darkness Dawn Darkness Before The Dawn

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“I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.”

Thinking Should Music Is Scary Exorcism

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“I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.”

Ifs Knows Wells Shows Heaven Stage Wind Elements Rain Performances Performing Thunder Invocation

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“If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.”

Ifs Self Used My Own Behinds Hair Conscious Skins Awkward Self Conscious

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“But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.”

Wells Character Dream Reading Fashion Becoming Clothes Magazines Teenager Romanticism Escapism Alluring Fashion Magazines

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“Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.”

Break Fashion Emotional Internals Turmoil Escapism

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“I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.”

Thinking Made Fall Next Black Class Boys Hair Periods Ten Red Falling In Love Casts Spells Candle Bedroom Witchcraft Shrines Goth

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“The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.”

People I Can Stage Fronts Judgement Judged

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“I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.”

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“I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.”

“My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.”

Style Skills Instinct Enthusiasm

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“I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.”

Wells Guy Girl Eyebrows My Boyfriend Bleach Girl Love

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“I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.”

People Want Two Hard Wanted Personality Musician Albums

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“Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.”

Ifs Looks Turns Dresses Milk Pints Givenchy

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“What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.”

People Moments Seeing Stage Performances

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“I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.”

Thinking Kind Helping Body Song Singing Excited Your Body Release Muscles Adrenaline Endorphins Physical Things

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“When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.”

People Want Lying Down And Caught Buried

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“The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.”

Firsts Hard Bits Media Cry First Time Mad Studios Release Lungs Exposure

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“You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'”

People Knows Wells Asks Normal Mellow

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“If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.”

Ifs Heart Whole Mistake

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“Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.”

Way Environment Suits Our Environment Auditory

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About the Author

Born: August 28, 1986
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 143

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