Knows Quotes by Petra Haden

My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack…

— Petra Haden

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't…

— Petra Haden

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to…

— Petra Haden

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

— Petra Haden

I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and…

— Petra Haden

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was…

— Petra Haden

I've already done two cover albums. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do another, but I just…

— Petra Haden

It's my favorite movie score and because I had such a crush on Christopher Reeve. The music made me love him even…

— Petra Haden

I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put…

— Petra Haden

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

— Petra Haden

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at…

— Petra Haden

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw…

— Petra Haden