Carrie Brownstein Quotes
Top 73 wise famous quotes and sayings by Carrie Brownstein
Carrie Brownstein Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived.
You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it.
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 me out of my brain.
What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.
I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.
The inexplicable is its own form of freedom. Belonging is not a form of restriction. We can't name the feeling but we can sing along.
I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
They were like really loud librarians. And as the audience, you better shut the hell up because you're in the library of rock right now. When
With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.
You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.
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.
There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.
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 doing something silly.
Yet I felt it was unfair to be labeled when I had yet to find a label for myself, and when binary, fixed identities held no meaning or safety for me.
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'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.
As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.
I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. I've never quite been able to shake that.
I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
We felt there was a creeping tepidness in music, a cloying softness, as if music were only a salve, not an instigator. It's
At that age I thought apartments were built specifically to house the single or the newly single, a divorce dormitory of sorts.
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 love about music.
The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.
Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.
To become a fan of something, to open and change, is a move of deliberate optimism, curiosity, and enthusiasm.
"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
I'm kind of a hermit - it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.
I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.
The notion of "female" should be so sprawling and complex that it becomes divorced from gender itself.