Laura Marling quotes

Laura Marling is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, recognized for her poetic lyrics and folk-inspired sound. Her work has earned widespread critical acclaim, multiple awards, and a dedicated international fanbase. She continues to influence contemporary folk music with her introspective songwriting and distinctive voice. Here are 30 of her quotes:

I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

Laura Marling

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

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People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.

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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

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No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

Laura Marling

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

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It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

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I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

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I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

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I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

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When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

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All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

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Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

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