Caroline Shaw

I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and…

— Caroline Shaw

I consider myself a musician.

— Caroline Shaw

Be free, and live life fully.

— Caroline Shaw

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

— Caroline Shaw

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

— Caroline Shaw

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice,…

— Caroline Shaw

I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for…

— Caroline Shaw

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

— Caroline Shaw

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes,…

— Caroline Shaw

I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out…

— Caroline Shaw

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.

— Caroline Shaw

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It…

— Caroline Shaw

I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and…

— Caroline Shaw

I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave…

— Caroline Shaw

'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments,…

— Caroline Shaw

There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds…

— Caroline Shaw