Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Nadine Vegais an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for her eclectic folk-inspired music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth11 July 1959
CountryUnited States of America
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Besides dancing at school and the studios, I'd written all these songs and had begun to play them at auditions.
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Marc will do his best to reschedule the concerts after he has fully recovered from this incident. Suzanne has agreed to join him for the rescheduled dates.
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I'd like to meet you/ In a timeless placeless place/ Somewhere out of context/ And beyond all consequences.
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Solitude stands by the window/ She turns her head as I walk in the room/ I can see by her eyes she's been waiting/ Standing in the slant of the late afternoon
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There is a certain style of writing. I don't know how to describe it exactly. It's idiosyncratic, it's very personal. It also can be very social. It's very unsentimental, very stark sometimes, usually about the problems of daily life and sometimes the humor. These are the things, I think, that define someone who's a New York songwriter.
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I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.
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Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.
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Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
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To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
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I think it's a really good option for someone my age,
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He was the first person I ever saw live on stage, and I was really offended by everything he was doing,
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I refuse to slap some stupid words on the stupid paper just so we have a stupid song finished.
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I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios-the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us-and the feeling of ritual the classes had.
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You have to defend your honor. And your family.