65 Tegan Quin Quotes To Inspire

In the realm of music and creativity, Tegan Quin has established herself not only as a talented artist but also as a profound source of inspiration. One half of the dynamic duo Tegan and Sara, Tegan carries a powerful voice that extends beyond her musical compositions. Her words resonate with a depth of emotion and insight that has the power to inspire and motivate. Whether discussing themes of life, love, or the creative journey, Tegan's quotes offer an authentic glimpse into her world, making them relatable and empowering. In this collection, we bring you 65 of her most insightful quotes, curated to enlighten and inspire anyone who seeks a little motivation from the mind of a true artist.

1. “All I want to get is a little bit closerAll I want to know is, can you come a little closer?Here comes the breath before we get a little bit closerHere comes the rush before we touch, come a little closer” - Tegan Quin

2. “Stay, you'll leave me in the morning anyway. My heart, you'll cut it out you never liked me anyway.” - Sara Quin

3. “Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?” - Sara Quin

4. “Now I'm all messed up, sick inside wondering where you're leaving your makeup.” - Sara Quin

5. “Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while.” - Sara Quin

6. “Why do I take this lonely road, nobody here to walk with me? So I start fresh all over again why won't you just comfort me?” - Sara Quin

7. “Go (please stay), Go (please stay), Go if you want to,I can't stop you. Just go if you want to I can't stop you.” - Sara Quin

8. “I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave. I never walked the party line, but that doesn't mean that I was never afraid. I'm not your hero, but that doesn't mean we're not one and the same.” - Sara Quin

9. “I was a fool for love, I was a fool.” - Tegan Quin

10. “You don't need this prep but I'm going to give it to you anyway. I can tell, I don't know any of you that well, but I can see it in your faces that and some of you have faces that remind me of what my face looked like when I was younger. I see some of you young people out there and I remember how hard it is to be young. And I remember how hard it is to be rejected the first time when you're young. And so what I want you to do is close your eyes. And I can see you, so don't cheat me here. Close those eyes of yours. Put 'em, real tight. And I want you to imagine the first person who broke you heart. The first person that didn't like you back, the first person that said shitty stuff about you. The first person that dumped you. The first person that changed their phone number because you called them 62 times in one day. The first person that didn't know how good you were and they missed you, they passed you by. Imagine that person and then I want you to sing at the top of your fucking lungs. I want you to sing. I want to heal that with you right now. (sings): Look me in the eye and tell me you dont find me attractive.Look me in the heart and tell me that you wont go. Look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love look me in the heart and unbreak broken it wont happen.” - Tegan Quin Live @ Cain's Ballroom 9 11 10

11. “The muscles fought so longTo control against the pull ofOne magnet to another magnet” - Sara Quin

12. “this is the last honest look I'll ever give.” - Tegan Quin

13. “I saved up all my sunshine Just to see you more clearI'm a little short on solar And I haven't given in” - Tegan Quin

14. “No I'm going to hold you anyway And I'll do it without shakingYes I'll love you always And I'll do it without achingYes I'd give you anythingYes I'd give you anythingI gave you everything” - Tegan Quin

15. “One time in your lifeYou've got the route in hand But the map is stuckThey said it's not your fault The tires are tired the camera movesAnd your driver's been pulled” - Tegan Quin

16. “I've got nowhere to go, I've got nowhere to go.” - Sara Quin

17. “I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe.” - Tegan Quin

18. “I feel you in my heart,and I don't even know you.” - Tegan Quin

19. “Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at.” - Tegan Quin

20. “I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you.” - Sara Quin

21. “A letter to send to you and if I forget, or god forbid die too soon, hope that you'll hear me,know that I wrote to you.” - Sara Quin

22. “Might paint something I might want to hang here someday, might write something I might want to say to you someday, might do something I'd be proud of someday. Mark my words, I might be something someday.” - Sara Quin

23. “All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another.” - Tegan Quin

24. “Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.” - Tegan Quin

25. “On the drive back here I was worrying over nothing. On the drive back there tears spilling over something.” - Sara Quin

26. “I won't mistake you for problems with me. I won't let my moods ruin this you'll see. I won't take everything good and move it away. I won't be left dancing along to songs from the past.” - Sara Quin

27. “I can't untangle, I can't untangle what I feel and what would matter most.” - Sara Quin

28. “We're strangers, we're not friends. I hate this, and I hate them.And I found out that you're angry, and you're sorry you ever met me” - Tegan Quin

29. “Short on all the things I don't want, I'm full of love and longing. Take me by the hand and tell me, you would take me anywhere.” - Sara Quin

30. “You wait up for me I don't wake up for you. Would you like the company or are you sick of me. When your love lets you go you only want love more. Even when love wasn't what you were looking forSpeak slow, tell me love where do we go.” - Tegan Quin

31. “I hope I never figure out who broke your heart and if I do, if I do. I'd spend all night losing sleep. I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind. Well I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind.” - Sara Quin

32. “Audience member: Living Room!Sara: Kitchen” - Sara Quin

33. “I realized I’d learned something about myself. I was like ‘oh man, I’ve let this go’ now I’m starting to talk about it like it’s over and it hadn’t even begun.” - Tegan Quin

34. “Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out.” - Sara Quin

35. “What will bring me home? What will make me stay, stay? Well I don't know, I don't know.” - Sara Quin

36. “There's something so divided, Don't worry about me I'll be fine, Don't live your life for me or for anyone. Live your life as if you're one.” - Tegan Quin

37. “Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way.” - Tegan Quin

38. “Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine.” - Sara Quin

39. “Will you ever use common sense, I hear it comes pretty cheap. And if I speak more clearly, if I make more sense. Will you shut your mouth. You won't come across so dense. Close your eyes and then you free your mind.” - Tegan Quin

40. “Hardly happy at all, and I'm ready to take the fall. We pay for the stupid things we've done where I come from. Can you sit through this? Or is it gonna be too deep?” - Tegan Quin

41. “My whole life revolves around your absence until I can't remember what I do, what I know. Or where I go.” - Tegan Quin

42. “Every moment was that moment, every day was that day, every second was that second, and I've lost myself again.” - Tegan Quin

43. “Most women look at magazines and then they just feel bad about themselves but Sara looks at magazines and she’s all like I can get with her.” - Tegan Quin

44. “Promise me you'll never go away.Promise me you'll always stay.” - Tegan Quin

45. “This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you’re so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape’s holding!” - Sara Quin

46. “When your love lets you go you only want love more, even when love wasn’t what you were looking for.” - Tegan Quin

47. “I want to show girls you don't have to get married and have kids and give up you dreams. You can conquer the world. YOu can play in front of a crowd of 20,000 people, and you can own that shit.” - Tegan Quin

48. “This week or last week, I don't really care about it anymore. I write myself this later, I tell myself you let me go.” - Sara Quin

49. “I close my eyes I make myself unhappy so you'll go. Without me, oh what's wrong with you?” - Sara Quin

50. “I always say that anybody who’s single ― like Sara ― their love is the most intense love. The heartbreak they’re enduring is the most intense heartbreak. We cannot understand what Sara’s going through. When it’s love, it’s my love, you can’t understand it. You can’t compare. But I really related to where Sara was on this record. When she was writing these songs and coming to me like: You don’t understand, I was like: You’re right, but I also do.” - Tegan Quin

51. “I'm quite sure we'll find one another, in a place better than this, a time filled with us.” - Tegan Quin

52. “If you're a sports star and you say 'faggot' on the courts, you get fined. But if you're in music and you say it 234 times, you get an MTV music award.” - Tegan Quin

53. “I get so sad that sad gets to be.So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so city girl on you. I go so crazy I don't know what to do.” - Tegan Quin

54. “Endless nights took on my whole life. Or so I thought. It turns out that all your friends, they were just mean, dressed up.” - Tegan Quin

55. “I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart. I want to give directions, helpful hints. What you'll be looking for.” - Sara Quin

56. “I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know.” - Sara Quin

57. “It could have been a month or, It could have been a year, But I, I gave up long before, Long before you cared.” - Sara Quin

58. “Don’t you think that I’ve been giving up?Don’t you think that I’ve been giving up?Change,I take the blame.” - Tegan and Sara

59. “If you’ve got it to give, You’ve got to give it all. If you’ve got it to give, You've got to give it all. Oh give it all to me.” - Tegan Quin

60. “I'm infamous for being infamous. I don’t think you’re so famous miss. I miss everything, When you’re away from me.” - Tegan Quin

61. “I'll get right on right about you, you've got trouble right about now, you've got trouble right about now.” - Tegan Quin

62. “I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.” - Sara Quin

63. “I’ve been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.” - Sara Quin

64. “I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. I don't struggle with who I am, who I date, who I love, what I say or what I stand for, not just sexuality but everything.” - Sara Quin

65. “Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster.” - Sara Quin