Lola Kirke

I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted…

— Lola Kirke

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

— Lola Kirke

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

— Lola Kirke

I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to…

— Lola Kirke

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

— Lola Kirke

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

— Lola Kirke

The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when…

— Lola Kirke

You perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying.…

— Lola Kirke

If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing."…

— Lola Kirke

The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without…

— Lola Kirke

As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing…

— Lola Kirke

I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see…

— Lola Kirke

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A…

— Lola Kirke

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

— Lola Kirke

I think the merging of high and low culture is so fascinating.

— Lola Kirke

There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

— Lola Kirke

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.

— Lola Kirke

As soon as I saw myself beginning to be way too comfortable on a film set or TV set, and not stimulated…

— Lola Kirke

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more…

— Lola Kirke

Perhaps like attracts like, and that's why I found myself in a circle of women who are so passionate about making music.

— Lola Kirke

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just…

— Lola Kirke

I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most…

— Lola Kirke

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

— Lola Kirke

You don't have that interaction with the audience when you're acting for film; you're kind of acting in a vacuum. You're acting…

— Lola Kirke

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not.…

— Lola Kirke