Suzanne Ciani famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine
-- Suzanne Ciani

#My Boyfriend #Furniture #Machines
When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didnâ€™t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing
-- Suzanne Ciani

#Records #Firsts #Were Meant To Be
I think for me, I had a long-standing desire to orchestrate the sunrise, and never came up with the right thing on piano. So at a certain moment, I had the revelation that the whole thing would be electronic, not traditional acoustic.
-- Suzanne Ciani

#Thinking #Piano #Long
When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.
-- Suzanne Ciani

#Focus #Needs #Life Is
My big problem is that I don't promote my electronic music very much because it makes my 'normal' fans angry!
-- Suzanne Ciani

#Fans #Normal #Problem
My studio is right on the ocean, and the sun rises right in my eyes every morning, and the energy of the sea is right there.
-- Suzanne Ciani

#Morning #Ocean #Eye
My first album was called Seven Waves, and was directly inspired by the ocean, and the ocean has been a leitmotif in my music. Nature was my inspiration even in NYC, because I needed that balance - I would travel out to nature. I loved the big city, I loved the energy, but I needed the balance.
-- Suzanne Ciani

#Ocean #Inspiration #Cities

I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.
My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all
I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.
It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.
I guess I would be most grateful for my family and my friends and my dogs, my boyfriend. I'm grateful for a lot. I'm grateful to be healthy.
My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

Suzanne Ciani famous quotes

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