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
writing voice details
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
writing civilized
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
writing issues people
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.
song writing order
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.
song writing intimacy
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
song smart writing
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. 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. That's why I write the way I do.
writing form feels
I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.
writing way direct
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
begun besides dance-and-dancing dancing school songs written
Besides dancing at school and the studios, I'd written all these songs and had begun to play them at auditions.
agreed best concerts fully join marc recovered
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.
beyond consequences meet somewhere timeless
I'd like to meet you/ In a timeless placeless place/ Somewhere out of context/ And beyond all consequences.
afternoon eyes head late slant solitude standing stands turns walk
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
certain daily define describe life problems stark style york
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.
work
I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.