Top 127 Quotes & Sayings by Juliana Hatfield

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Juliana Hatfield is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads. She also fronted her own band, The Juliana Hatfield Three, along with bassist Dean Fisher and drummer Todd Philips, which was active in the mid-1990s and again in the mid-2010s. It was with the Juliana Hatfield Three that she produced her best-charting work, including the critically acclaimed albums Become What You Are (1993) and Whatever, My Love (2015) and the singles "My Sister" (1993) and "Spin the Bottle" (1994).

American - Musician | Born: July 27, 1967

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To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

Juliana Hatfield

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

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I don't feel bad or scared about getting older in terms of my looks or anything like that. I'm not afraid of my face changing. I enjoy seeing my face change. I think it's really interesting. I wouldn't want to have same face for my whole life. It would be boring to look at the same face in the mirror for 80 years.

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People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

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I'm a neo-Luddite.

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Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

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The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

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I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

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Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

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When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

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As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

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I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

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People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

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I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.

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My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

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I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better.

Juliana Hatfield

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

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Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.

Juliana Hatfield

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

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When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

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Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of me, squeezing my guts really hard.

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My knees are ticklish.

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My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

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A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

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The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

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I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

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I find myself a fascinating subject.

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I like people wanting to know about me.

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I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

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It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

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I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

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Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

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Just do what feels right.

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In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

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To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

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You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

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I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

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I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

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I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

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Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

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I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

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I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

Juliana Hatfield

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

Juliana Hatfield

Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia.

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People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

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My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

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You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

Juliana Hatfield

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

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I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

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What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

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Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.

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My soul is fine, thanks.

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I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.

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All I'm trying to do is to keep going and keep evolving.

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I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

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I have been a bridesmaid. Fortunately, the outfits were pretty tame. They were cream and black, but I still wouldn't wear them out in public, though.

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I'm full of contradictions.

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I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

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