I studied dance from when I was 9 till about 18, and you spend all day long looking at yourself in the mirror and trying to embody a perfect line or a perfect form in some way, and thats when it became attractive to me. Small Blue Thing has that quality of a line about it and thats why Im so careful about the images, because its not just enough to write what you feel, it has to have some kind of form to it. Beyond that I cant really say. A lot of it sometimes just comes out the way it comes out but I think sometimes there is a connection between the way I learned to see things as a child, when I was dancing, and the songs [...] Im always talking about the way things touch and the way something would feel to my senses. Part of my nature as a child was to get lost in the way things felt. If I was washing the dishes I would spend hours at it because I liked the way they felt. I would sit and stroke all the dishes and my mother would be annoyed with me. She had to come in and tell me to stop fondling them. But Ive always had that sort of nature that loses myself in whatever it is that I am touching. Or when I worked in the theatre, in the costume department, I would spend hours ironing a piece of fabric. And thats a big part of my nature, that is there in the songs if you listen for it, like in Small Blue Thing. Its in that song. Its there in my voice sometimes if its not there in the words. ~ Suzanne Vega Interview with Fátima Castro Silva in Urgent Whispers (watermarks.vega.net/urgent_whispers/index.htm) Small Blue Thing,which to me had a humorous element, and was meant to be more playful than its been interpreted. It was meant to be almost like a cartoon, like a question that youd ask a child. If you were to describe how you felt, what would you be like? Or If you were a small blue thing, what would you be? That to me isnt side-splitting funny, but it has an element of whimsy that some people dont look at. The Performing Songwriter Magazine Interview, by Bill DeMain (vega.net/perfsong.htm)
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 04:41:14 +0000
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