Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me,… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When I was 16, 17 years old, I became aware of music coming out of Olympia, Wash., which is the state capitol… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
A lot of music for me was about - I mean, aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
If your whole world of a band or music is taking place in a digital realm or on technological devices, it's all… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Not even the creators of 'Rock Band' could possibly believe that playing the game is tantamount to making your own music. There… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or that an… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of wonderful comics that leave you hanging in a state of apprehension or anxiety before alleviating that tension with… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to them. I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
[I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
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