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Singer-songwriter

Jane Siberry is a renowned Canadian singer-songwriter known for her unique musical style and emotive voice. She began her music career in the late 1970s and has released numerous albums, winning the hearts of fans around the world.

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Famous Jane Siberry Quotes

“So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.”

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Author:Jane Siberry

“It takes forever if you go by inertia.”

Ifs Forever Inertia

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“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.”

Dies Sleep Pay Behinds Streets Hungry Restaurants Gas Acceptable Beaten Will To Live Smelly

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“I tell everyone a different story. That way nothing's ever boring, even when they turn and say goodbye.”

Way Different Stories Turns Boring Goodbye Saying Goodbye

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“I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.”

Thinking Night Sleep Judging Judgment Nasty

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“If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.”

Ifs Looks Seems Asks Given Our Lives Air Universal Asking Setting Settings Breathing

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“I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.”

Ifs Waiter Waitress

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“I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.”

Shows Home Running Remember Sound Rooms Wonderful Built Checks Odd Host Living Room New Relationship Family Home

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“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!”

Way Home Challenges Dog Needed Lessons Decided Borders Pet Ancestor Sheep Just Being My Dog Back Home Wales Vancouver Learning More Collies

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“I hear pounding feet in the streets below And the women crying and the children know That there's something wrong And it's hard to believe that love will prevail Oh it won't rain all the time The sky won't fall forever And though the night seems long Your tears won't fall forever”

Knows Believe Children Long Hard Seems Night Song Fall Forever Feet Sky Streets Cry Tears Rain Hard To Believe

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“You can't chop down a symmetry”

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“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.”

People Ifs Action Games Common Blame Connected Lawyer Common Sense Australia Accountability Tire Our Actions Healer Cloaks Liability Imbalance Istanbul Blame Game

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“I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.”

People Ifs Thinking Creativity Cutting Industry Originals Expected Making Money Vibrations Headings Music Industry Distortion Removal

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“I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.”

Watches Rocks Music Is Acoustics Acoustic Music

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“Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.”

Use Law Universe Energy Natural Pleasure Greater Music Is Training Harmony Musical Natural Law

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“Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.”

Firsts Book Self Helping Powerful Self Help Music Is Core Senses Gathering Chords Self Help Books Help Book

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

Different Night Balls Every Night Thread

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“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!”

Giving Enough Kids Joy Brain Protect Chocolate Nurse Mentor Harry Potter Potters Make You Happy Protect You Activate Dementors

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“Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.”

Ifs Inspirational Order Universe Circumstances Order In The Universe

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“It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.”

Children Order Dog Clarity Secure Consistency

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“I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.”

Ifs Thinking Happens Support Doors Letting Go Musician Opening Again And Again

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“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.”

People Earth Consciousness Hell Land Creating Forests Unhappiness Clearing Hell On Earth

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

Thinking Wonderful Listening Grew Grew Up

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“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!”

People Political Decision Greater Late Conscious Gains Too Late Greater Good Political Decisions

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“I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.”

Together Raised Pops Complicated Ran Pop Music Blur

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“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.”

Feels Mind Young Felt Tricks Lighters Of My Mind

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“I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.”

People Thinking Jobs Artist Air Barometer Antenna

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

Greater Harmony Exaggeration

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“I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.”

Trying Energy Space Rocks Quiet Folks Intimacy Quiet Space

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“I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.”

Bits Difficult Music Is Originals Climate Household Original Music

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“I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.”

Jesus Consciousness

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“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.”

Knows Would Be Law Young Heard Needed Musician Hearing Laws Of Nature Somewhere Else Vacuums Obedient

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

Universe Found Understanding Sides Study Exposed Understanding The Universe

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“Though the night seems long, you're tears won't fall forever.”

Long Seems Night Fall Forever Sadness Tears

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About the Author

Born: October 12, 1955
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 34

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