Cat Power famous quotes

03-25-2025

We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind
-- Cat Power

#Mind #Looks
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself, itâ€™s a mistake for me. I have learned through my friendships and through people that Iâ€™ve met who survived. Thereâ€™s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I donâ€™t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who donâ€™t invalidate me.
-- Cat Power

#War #Mistake #Moving
I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.
-- Cat Power

#Done #Records
I've always dressed like a dude.
-- Cat Power
I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.
-- Cat Power

#Impossible #Clique
If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
-- Cat Power

#Fire #Play #Two
People and their religions don't affect me.
-- Cat Power

#People
People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
-- Cat Power

#Tired #Thinking #People
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
-- Cat Power

#Guitar #Relax #Locks
We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
-- Cat Power

#Mistake #Trying #Better Person
After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
-- Cat Power

#Self Esteem #Years #Play
For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.
-- Cat Power

#Kids #Thinking #Voice
I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.
-- Cat Power

#Proud #Producers #Proud Of You
I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
-- Cat Power

#Diamond #Entertainers
I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.
-- Cat Power

#Thinking #People #World
I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.
-- Cat Power

#Kids #Joy #Littles
Nobody considers a covers record an album.
-- Cat Power

#Albums #Records
I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.
-- Cat Power

#Brain #Problem #Guts
Oh I do believe In all the things you see What comes is better Than what came before
-- Cat Power

#Believe
Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.
-- Cat Power

#Life Is Hard #Life Is
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
-- Cat Power

#Country #Hip Hop #Firsts
Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.
-- Cat Power

#Crazy #Thinking #Problem
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
-- Cat Power

#Rocks #Hip Hop #Connections
I am human and I make mistakes.
-- Cat Power

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #I Make Mistakes
I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.
-- Cat Power

#Choices #Supportive #Made
I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.
-- Cat Power

#Men #Los Angeles #Moved
I need to be able to face things.
-- Cat Power

#Needs #Able #Faces
I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.
-- Cat Power

#Long #Pay #Becoming

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