Quotes by Lauv - Page 1

I love nostalgia.
Lauv /
Nostalgia
Love I Love
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I write a lot of sad songs!
Lauv /
Sad
Sad Songs
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I think a lot of pop music is escapist.
Lauv /
Pop Music
Escapist
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I could never write a proper party song.
Lauv /
Party
Song
Proper
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Kids can tell if you're being genuine or not.
Lauv /
Genuine
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People come up to me with tattoos of my lyrics!
Lauv /
Tattoos
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At the end of the day, we all want to fall in love.
Lauv /
Fall
Love End Of The Day Day
End Of The Day
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I love bodies of work and albums and stuff like that.
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Bodies
Love Work Like
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I do feel like I'm a little too much of a bummer sometimes.
Lauv /
Bummer
Too Much
Sometimes Feel Like
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I think streaming, in general, is democratising music in general.
Lauv /
Streaming
General
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Living in L.A. has been really good for me as a creator and musician.
Lauv /
Creator
Musician
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I'm super-into sappy movies like 'La La Land' and 'Midnight in Paris.'
Lauv /
Midnight
La
Sappy
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I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.
Lauv /
Hated
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All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done.
Lauv /
Definitely
Freeing
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For a lot of people going through their first love, you're both still figuring yourself out.
Lauv /
First Love
Love Yourself People
Figuring
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It's tough to know what I'm going to write about. I never really know until it starts happening.
Lauv /
Tough
Happening
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I love exploring the more complicated side of love. I feel like I've always gravitated toward that.
Lauv /
Complicated
Exploring
Love Always Feel
Side
Love Feel Always
Toward
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For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.
Lauv /
Feels
Longing
Nostalgic
Reason
Beautifully
Whatever
Towards
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I sort of feel that I have to constantly be really, really honest with the way I feel, and I have to get that out.
Lauv /
Honest
Constantly
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Ever since I visited Paris when I was younger, the sappy side of me really wanted to write a song about it someday.
Lauv /
Paris
Someday
Younger
Side
Sappy
Visited
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Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it's also the most satisfying thing.
Lauv /
Hardest Thing
Including
Satisfying
So Many People
The Hardest Thing
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In day-to-day life, there's so much that's calculated: so many fake, surface-level interactions that don't amount to anything.
Lauv /
Amount
Day To Day
Day To Day Life
Fake
Calculated
Interactions
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The thing about Sheeran is that he is an incredibly real artist and songwriter. He is not trying to be anybody else other than himself.
Lauv /
Anybody Else
Incredibly
Real Artist
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All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.
Lauv /
Deny
Feels
Simple
Type
Listener
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I feel like Drake could literally put out anything - like, the sound of seagulls over a beat - and it could be the Number One song on Spotify.
Lauv /
Seagull
Song
Spotify
Beat
Drake
Number
Literally
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'Chasing Fire' is about fighting for something that's already over. It's the beginning of the end. It's desperation. It's grand. But it's hopeless.
Lauv /
Chasing
Desperation
Fighting
Hopeless
Beginning
Grand
Over
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I'm trying to basically just focus on sharing everything that I was feeling with other people, so I can hopefully inspire other people to free themselves.
Lauv /
Inspire
Basically
Sharing
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I really hope to give to other people who are listening to my music the same thing that it's done for me, which is make me feel more free and more accepting of myself.
Lauv /
Music
Accepting
Done
Free
Same
Give
Same Thing
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I went from playing for nobody and having awkward experiences at award shows to now being all over the place playing sold-out shows for people who know all of the words.
Lauv /
Award Shows
Sold Out
Award
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Any one thing can get in the way of you and your brain being comfortable and being inspired. It's the difference between a really big song and a song that never existed.
Lauv /
Brain
Comfortable
One Thing
Song
Between
Difference
Existed
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In a way, the traditional album is no longer as important as it used to be. But at the same time, I don't want to be the kind of artist who just releases one song after another.
Lauv /
Artist
Release
Song
Traditional
Album
Longer
Time Song Way
Same Time
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I've been through so many different phases, partly because I moved around so much. I never found my identity based on where I was from. It was always pick up and explore something else.
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Different
Found
Identity
Moved
Phases
Always Never Something
Around
Based
Through
Else
Explore
Partly
Pick
Something Else
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One of my favorite cities is Tokyo because of sushi, and Asian food in general, but then also the way Tokyo operates, because it's so clean, and there's space for a lot of variety of stores.
Lauv /
Cities
Clean
Stores
Sushi
Tokyo
Variety
General
Favorite
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'Lauv' comes from the Latvian word for lion, and my mom's side of the family is from Latvia - it's a place I've been probably 15 times or more. I'm also a Leo, and my real name, Ari, means lion.
Lauv /
Family
Mom
Real
Also
Name
Side
Times
Means
Word
Leo
Lion
Place
Real Name
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Everybody in L.A. is a songwriter, producer, actor, creative. For some reason, you're supposed to go to a bar and all hang out and act like you like each other. There is a lot of fake stuff that goes on.
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Creative
Fake
Bar
Hang
Producer
Supposed
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With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff, all the songs that I've kept to myself have always been me writing about my life.
Lauv /
Stuff
Life Myself Me
Life Myself Done
Pretty
Artists
Producer
Terms
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I think everybody goes through that, especially... being in love for the first time. Some people, they're lucky enough that that ends up being who they're with for the rest of their lives, and sometimes it doesn't work out.
Lauv /
Being In Love
First Time
Lucky
Work Out
Love Time Work
Rest
Love Work Time
Goes
Some People
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I put out my first song, 'The Other,' in 2015 just on Soundcloud. It was always my most popular song but never really went far in a mainstream way. Then, a couple years after it came out, I watched it go from 8 million to, like, 100 million.
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Couple
Mainstream
Song
Watched
Came
Far
Way Always Never
Million
Popular
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'I Met You When I Was 18' is a collection of songs, a story about moving to New York City when I was 18 and falling in love for the first time. A story about trying to figure out your own identity whilst being deeply intertwined with someone else's.
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New York
Falling In Love
First Time
Identity
Intertwined
Moving
New York City
Love Time Your
Collection
Love Time City
Deeply
Falling
Figure
Met
Story
Whilst
York
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I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out.
Lauv /
Delayed
Focus
Lost
Release
Seen
Career
Early
Record
Label
Record Label
Sign
Wants
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I miss the energy of New York City and being able to step out of my apartment and see so much unique culture all the time around me without having to seek it out. In L.A., I have to sort of seek out everything I'm trying to do. It makes it less spontaneous.
Lauv /
Apartment
New York City
Spontaneous
Unique
Time Culture Me
Miss
Seek
Step
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Growing up, I played in different bands and did a lot of self-booked touring and traveling around, and my sister was driving us on tour, and we're playing for nobody and literally begging my friends that I went to high school with to buy tickets to our shows.
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Sister
Begging
High School
Tickets
Bands
Buy
Literally
Tour
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I am realising this now more as I grow up: that I never really felt connected to locations. In some sense, I always kind of felt a little lost in that I never had any hometown pride. While I experience a lot different places and experiences, I always felt a little detached.
Lauv /
Experience
Connected
Detached
Different
Felt
Hometown
Lost
Pride
Realising
Little
Now
Grow
Different Places
Experiences
Grow Up
Locations
Places
Sense
While
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