Music Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

— Carrie Brownstein

When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get.

— Carrie Brownstein

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

— Carrie Brownstein

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

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Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

— Carrie Brownstein

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking…

— Carrie Brownstein

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

With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the 'Rock Band' game is a tribute to…

— Carrie Brownstein

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so…

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A lot of music for me was about - I mean, aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really…

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"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

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In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading…

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Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me,…

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From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk…

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What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was…

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I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that…

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In the early and mid 1990s, every musician I knew was obsessed with Helium. The 'Pirate Prude' EP and 'Pat's Trick' played…

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Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or…

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I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to…

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When I was 16, 17 years old, I became aware of music coming out of Olympia, Wash., which is the state capitol…

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I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to…

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You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that…

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I've noticed that as someone who has done music and creative things in Washington state and Portland, to kind of toot your…

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The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and…

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I think a lot of the intention of bands, especially in the last year, is to spread themselves out geographically and borrow…

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I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music…

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I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie…

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I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other…

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The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces…

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I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to…

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With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also…

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So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of…

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You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was…

— Carrie Brownstein

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

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

Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or…

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I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself…

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From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or…

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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

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high…

— Carrie Brownstein