What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was… — 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
“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
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 Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes;… — 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
In the high-stakes and elitist world of music collecting and fandom, we operate from an ab ovo perspective. The seed, the first… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it… — 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
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 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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