Carrie Brownstein Quotes

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• I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and…
• I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
• Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
• The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I…
• You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out…
• The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they…
• Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me…
• I need a template of a template
• People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.
• I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or…
• Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or…
• The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp…
• After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar…
• For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about…
• I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.
• I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.
• I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense,…
• For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.
• 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.
• Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

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