Paula Cole

Paula Cole (born April 5, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her song "I Don't Want To Wait" was used as the theme song to the television show Dawson's Creek.

Early life

Cole was raised in Rockport, Massachusetts; her mother was an elementary school art teacher, and her father was a professor of biology and ecology at Salem State College and a polka musician. She attended Rockport High School, where she was president of her senior class and performed in school theatrical productions such as South Pacific. Cole then attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied jazz singing and improvisation. She was offered a record deal by a jazz label, but decided to turn it down.

Recording career

Cole got her first big professional break when she was invited to perform on Peter Gabriel's 1993–94 Secret World Live tour. Shortly after this, she was signed on with her first record company Imago Records. Through this record company, she released her first album Harbinger in 1994. Within that year of Harbinger's release, Imago Records went out of business. In 1995, she was signed on to Warner Bros. Records. The record company reissued Harbinger in the Autumn of 1995.

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Famous quotes by Paula Cole:

"For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again."
"I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born."
"The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud."
"There was a vacancy and a need for women to support each other in music, in business, in life."
"The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground."
"If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better."
"Just watching my cats can make me happy."
"I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good."
"I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life."
"I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy."
"I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV."
"I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively."
"I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come."
"But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans."
"When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again."
"I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success."
"The monsters are in your own head."
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NIETZSCHE'S EYES

by: Paula Cole

How many times did
I have to hear you say to me
Self obsessed artist
Center of your universe
Well I believed your every word
And I believed you were my god
Nietzsche's eyes
Nietzsche's kind
Failed in flight to us
And all my love
Grandmother Mother
And now I see it in myself
I take on the water
Until the dam threatens to break
I became a little dull
My voice became too small
Nietzsche's eyes
Nietzsche's kind
Failed in flight to us
And all my love
I'm shakin' I'm shakin' I'm getting down this fantasy
And I'm shakin' I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this
Getting down this
You were not my superman
I didn't know
Just held the phone
All my love I'm shakin' I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this fantasy
I'm shakin' I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this, getting down this
You were not my superman
I wasn't honest
I tried to philosophize
Only too late did
I see I wore Nietzsche's eyes
Now that I step back to see
I haven't been me
Nietzsche's eyes
Nietzsche's kind
Failed in flight to us
And all my love
I'm shakin' I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this fantasy
And I'm shakin'
I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this




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