Sara Bareilles famous quotes

04-14-2025

Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out honestly.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Fall #Honestly
Show me how big your brave is.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Brave #Bigs #Show Me
So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?
-- Sara Bareilles

#Feelings #Ceilings #Earth
True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Giving #Bravery #Imperfection
My earth is somebody's ceiling
-- Sara Bareilles

#Ceilings #Earth
Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Song #Mean #Thinking
Its so easy to just rip someones work apart.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Rip #Easy
You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
-- Sara Bareilles

#Drug #Weapons #Phrases
I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Singers #Sound #Singer-songwriters
I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Inspiration #Feels
The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Emotional #Tears #My Family
I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Song #Writing #Diaries
I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Artist #Apples #People
I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Beautiful #Artist #Want
I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Fall #Sky #Focus
My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Crazy #Iron #Hair
It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes
-- Sara Bareilles

#Mistake #Shame #Good Mistake
I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Grateful #Artist #Chance
I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Hurt #Feelings #Want
I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Girl #Growing Up #School
You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Speaking Up #Lack Of Love #Outcast
I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'
-- Sara Bareilles

#Mistake #Believe #Names
If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Winning #Feels
I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Song #Thinking #Issues
I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Moving #Body #Want
Jump start my kaleidoscope heart, Love to watch the colors fade, They may not make sense, But they sure as hell made me.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Heart #Color #May
I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Coffee #Hands #Venues
I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Song #Kids #Used
Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts.
-- Sara Bareilles

#Love #Dream #Eye

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